Congrats to the OAIster team!

News from the University of Michigan Libraries that the OAIster digitial repository of scholarly material is now is home to more than 8 million records. Those records come from more than 730 repositories in 49 countries on six continents. We saw this milestone coming back in November when we posted this note.

From the news release:
Ann Devenish, Publication Services Project Manager at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute notes that, “Harvesting by OAIster is a primary ‘selling point’ when we talk to scientists and researchers about the visibility, accessibility, and impact of their contributions in an institutional repository. From their own experiences they know that a search using one of the popular search engines can bring back thousands (if not, millions) of results which will require careful and time-consuming screening, with no guarantee that they will ever get to the content they seek. A search of OAIster, across hundreds of open and scholarly archives and millions of records, brings back results with the key metadata elements that allow for quick identification of, and easy navigation to, the content they seek.”

See Also: Stanford’s HighWire Press Passes 1.5 Million Free Full Text Articles in Database (12-21-2006)
Total as of today: 4,108,345 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers, nearing 1.6 million free articles.

See Also: IAC’s InfoTrac OneFile Now Home to More than 60 Million Articles (Many Full Text and Full Image)
InfoTrac OneFile is available for free (remotely, access from any web computer, for personal use) via many libraries. In most cases all you need is a library card. The database is updated daily.

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