About OAIster

OAIster currently provides access to 20,220,634 records from 1082 contributors.

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. We provide access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
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Using OAIster

OAIster can be searched by Title, Author/Creator, Subject, Language or Entire Record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text, image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency. Results allow further limiting by data contributor (i.e., where the record was harvested from).
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Last update: 27 Feb 2009
Next update: 4 Mar 2009

New data contributors harvested:

• Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)
• BiPrints
• DigitalCommons@USU
• Digitale Mechanismen- und Getriebebibliothek (DMG-Lib)
• Podkarpacka Biblioteka Cyfrowa
• Repositorio de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras (RU-FFYL)
• TUCS Publications Database
• VADS: The Online Resource for Visual Arts