Database: New: Search through the OpenDOAR for repository content

OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - has released a trial search service for academics and researchers around the world which allows full-text searching from its list of repositories.

OpenDOAR already provides a global directory of freely available open access repositories that have been assessed by OpenDOAR staff as being of academic value. Now, with its new service, it also offers a full-text search service from this list of quality-controlled repositories. The trial service has been made possible through the recent launch by Google of its Custom Search Engine, which allows OpenDOAROpenDOAR’s approach to quality assurance helps to minimise spurious or junk results and lead more directly to useful and relevant information to define a search service based on the Directory’s holdings.

Source: JISC

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