Prior Amsci Threads: "Australia gives $12 million to support open access" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3098.html
"University policy mandating self-archiving of research output" http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Hypermail/Amsci/3438.html ----------------------- Stevan [...] ...Scholar Google are working with the National Library of Australia to test OAI harvesting from the government-funded ARROW Discovery Service http://arrow-test.nla.gov.au/ [...] ...ARROW is still in development mode. Marking OAI-retrieved articles with an asterisk should be a cinch, or a separate service (less useful). Public comment, since posted to ozeprints. ADT=Australian Digital Theses (not OAI compliant), NLA=National Library of Australia. Arthur Arthur Sale 127 Tranmere Road, Howrah, Tasmania 7018, AUSTRALIA Phone (03) 6247 1331 (International replace '(03)' by '+61-3-') or Mobile 04 1947 1331 > -----Original Message----- > From: mai...@earth.library.uq.edu.au > Sent: Monday, 29 November 2004 09:27 > To: ePrint mail list > Subject: RE: Google Scholar results > > [...] > > The NLA has been running an experiment with Google in the use of the > OAI-PMH. We have opened up our own digital collections manager > (containing digitised content and records) to Google for harvesting > using OAI-PMH. This is working quite well, so we plan to make our larger > services, such as PictureAustralia with 1.3 million records, available in > the same way in 2005. > > We have also started harvesting records from institutional repositories, > some of which describe ADT theses, as part of the ARROW project. > However, our harvester can be adapted to harvest from any OAI-compliant > repository. > > We hope to be able to add all ADT records through the same harvesting > process soon, and in turn will be able to make all records available to > Google as we have for own content. This should be more efficient than > each institution having to register separately. > > Debbie Campbell > Director, Coordination Support Branch > National Library of Australia > Parkes Place > Canberra ACT 2600 > Australia > em: dcamp...@nla.gov.au; ph: +61 2 6262 1673; fx: +61 2 6273 2545 > Australia's Research Online http://www.arrow.edu.au