[OAI-eprints] OAI Service Providers

[mangiaracina silvana]

Dera Gerry,

this is the SAIL-eprints service provider
http://eprints.bo.cnr.it

SAIL-eprints (Search, Alert, Impact and Link) is an electronic open 
access service provider for finding scientific or technical documents, 
published or unpublished, in Chemistry, Physics, Engineering, Materials 
Sciences, Nanotechnologies, Microelectronics, Computer Sciences, 
Information Science, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Earth Sciences, 
Meteorology, Oceanography, Agricolture, and related application activities.

SAIL-eprints aims to offer a unique user-friendly Search interface for 
finding scientific documents, personal services such us Alerts (for 
registered users) to become aware of latest entries, Impact and Linking 
through the rapid dissemination and exploitation of papers. Download of 
documents in electronic format is possible only if it is permitted on 
the original archive.

SAIL-eprints has been designed primarily to collect information on 
scientific documents (metadata) authored by CNR (Italian National 
Research Council)researchers and deposited as preprints or postprints in 
CNR institutional open access archives. Also, SAIL-eprints collects 
metadata from other data repositories all over the world publishing 
materials in the same scientific fields. See here the complete list of 
open access archives or to register your OAI compliant repository.

We will be grateful for any of comments and suggestion on it!

best regards,
Silvana Mangiaracina

Gerry Mckiernan wrote:

> OAI Service Providers
> 
> I am greatly interested in identifying Any and All Major and Minor OAI
> Service Providers. I am aware of the Open Archives list of registered
> Service Providers 
> 
> [ http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html ]
> 
> but realize that this is incomplete [Not that Any List Can Ever Be
> Complete][:-)]
> 
> The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) [http://www.openarchives.org ] was
> conceived to develop and promote interoperability, with the aim of
> making it easy to  disseminate and share content. Within the framework
> of the  (OAI),  participants are divided into two classes, 'data
> providers' and 'service providers': 
> 
> *Data Providers* support the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 
> (OAI-PMH) 
> [ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html ]
> as a means of exposing metadata that describes their resources, 
> 
> while 
> 
> *Service Providers* harvest metadata using the OAI-PMH as a basis for
> building value-added services. 
> 
> So far, I have identified the following OAI Service Providers:
> 
> AmericanSouth.org
> [ http://www.americansouth.org/ ]
> 
> ARC: A Cross-Archive Service 
> [ http://arc.cs.odu.edu/ ]
> 
> citebaseSearch 
> [ http://citebase.eprints.org/ ]
> 
> CYCLADES
> [ http://www.ercim.org/cyclades/ ]
> 
> MetaArchive.org
> [ http://www.metaarchive.org ]
>  
> NDLTD Union Catalog
> [ http://rocky.dlib.vt.edu/~etdunion/  ]
> 
> Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library
> [ http://www.ncstrl.org ]
> 
> OAISter
> [ http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/ ]
> 
> Open Language Archives
>  [http://www.language-archives.org ]
> 
> Perseus
> [ http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/vor ]
> 
> Public Knowledge Project Open Archives Harvester 
> [ http://www.pkp.ubc.ca/harvester/ ]
> 
> Scirus
> [ http://www.scirus.com ] 
> 
> Sheetmusic Service [Sheet Music Consortium]
> [ http://digital.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/  ] 
> 
> TORII
> [ http://torii.sissa.it/ ]
> 
> UIUC Digital Gateway to Cultural Heritage Materials
> [ http://nergal.grainger.uiuc.edu/ ]
> 
>   As Always, Any and All contributions, comments, queries, critiques, 
> questions, or Cosmic Insights are Most Welcome!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Gerry
> 
> Gerry McKiernan 
> Service Librarian 
> Iowa State University 
> Ames IA 50011
> 
> gerrymck at iastate.edu 
> 
> 
> 
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