Take advantage of the performance of OAI harvesters and open access tools
Using scientific search engines as part of a monitoring approach

The term "OAI harvesters" refers to the search engines used to query open-access data repositories according to the OAI-PMH protocol (Open Archive Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).

• OAISTER, http://oaister.worldcat.org/

Developed by the University of Michigan and supported by OCLC , it provides access to over 25 million records of multidisciplinary digital resources from open archives.

Features :

• filtering on document formats ;

• refinement possibilities on the result set ;

• sharing options ;...