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Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant
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Thursday, April 21, 2005  



Canadian Association of Research Libraries - Open Archives Metadata Harvester
http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/

Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche Open Archives Metadata Harvester. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Institutional Repositories Pilot Project Harvester. This Harvester is the search service for the CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project and aggregates material from each of the participating Canadian institutions, allowing users to seamlessly search all of the repositories at once, using one common point of access. The purpose of the Pilot Project is to increase the accessibility of Canadian scholarly material. Currently, Canadian research output is published and distributed in extremely diverse platforms and formats. As well, the majority of Canadian research output is published outside of Canada, with its institutional and national origins concealed. The CARL Institutional Repository Pilot Project aims to increase the visibility of Canadian researchers and universities through the implementation of repositories at a number of Canadian institutions. An institutional repository (IR) is a digital collection of a university’s intellectual output. It centralizes, preserves, and makes accessible the knowledge generated by an academic institution. Institutional repositories also form part of a larger global system of repositories, which are indexed in a standardized way and freely accessible to anyone with an Internet connection, providing the foundation for a new model of scholarly publishing. The CARL/ABRC OAI Harvester currently has 4509 records from 9 archives indexed, and is updated daily. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources annotated white paper link compilation.

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