About OAIster

OAIster currently provides access to 15,622,344 records from 950 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: 23 Apr 2008
Next update: 11 May 2008

New data contributors harvested:

• AMCoR (Asahikawa Medical College Repository)
• cIRcle: UBC's Information Repository
• ICRISAT Library and Information Center
• IssueLab
• Portal de Periódicos da UNISUL
• PUMA: PUblication MAnagement, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
• State Library of North Carolina CONTENTdm Digital Repository
• ZHB-Dokumentenserver