The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have formed a partnership that will ensure continued public access to open-archive collections through the OAIster database, and will expand the visibility of these collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services.
Launched in 2002 with grant support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, OAIster was developed to test the feasibility of building a portal to open archive collections using the Open Archives Initiative
Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). OAIster has since grown to become one of the largest aggregations of records pointing to open archive collections in the world with over 19 million records
contributed by over 1,000 organizations worldwide.
Under the partnership, OAIster.org <http://www.oaister.org/> will continue to function as the public interface to OAIster collections, through funding provided by OCLC to the University of Michigan. Later in 2009, metadata harvesting operations will transfer from the University of Michigan to OCLC.
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Starting in late January 2009, while OAIster continues to be freely available at the www.oaister.org
Source: OCLC
Update: OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? (via Info Today)
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