- OAIster is a digital library catalog that provides access to academic resources by harvesting metadata from open archives using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). - It contains over 23 million records from over 1100 organizations worldwide, representing a variety of digital materials like articles, books, audio, images, and datasets. - OAIster is now maintained by OCLC to ensure its continued support and to broaden the scope of resources available in WorldCat. It provides access to scholarly resources that may not be found through other search engines or library catalogs.

14. OAIster and the Library Community Search for full text collections of academically-oriented digital resources. Using OAIster’s search engine, researchers are able to identify full-text resources in repositories that are freely accessible online with no restrictions

15. OAIster and the Library Community

21. OAIster Terms and Conditions OCLC harvests contributor’s metadata and loads it into WorldCat.org (note: OAIster records are NOT loaded to the WorldCat bibliographic and holdings database at this time) OCLC “Information for OAIster Metadata Contributors” states contributor’s metadata “may be used and transferred by OCLC and others” OCLC will investigate allegations of copyright infringement and remove the infringing metadata if appropriate; OCLC disclaims liability Simple take-down policy if contributors ask OCLC to remove their metadata No other terms and conditions concerning contributor metadata

22. Embassies abroad used it a lot to see what type of research was being performed on their countries: for example, two small counties, Malawi and Rwanda, used OAISTER extensively to track the type of agricultural research done on those countries by researchers abroad and in the U.S. This was even tracked by the Ministries of Agriculture in those countries, who would not otherwise have known what exactly type of research was being conducted and being published, even if it was published a decade ago. They would disseminate the results of this research to Ag Colleges and even to farmers to increase crop yields. Stephen Perry, US Department of State Facilitates World Wide Research

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