The Intute Institutional Repository Search of UK university research paper databases is to be launched in beta at the end of January. Content deposited in institutional repositories is growing, however as yet there is no comprehensive and easy way to search and retrieve this content. We believe that, in order to facilitate access to scholarly and educational material, this content should be widely accessible to the UK education community. In partnership with UKOLN http://www.ukoln.ac.uk at the University of Bath and SHERPA http://www.sherpa.ac.uk at the University of Nottingham, Intute has been commissioned by JISC www.jisc.ac.uk to develop a repository search infrastructure. This development aims to facilitate the discovery, access and retrieval of material. In doing so, we hope to raise the visibility of repository content and perpetuate the deposit of content.
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Roddy MacLeod says: January 26, 2008 @ 6:07 pm
Will it cover sources that OAIster doesn’t cover? http://www.oaister.org/
Caroline Williams says: January 28, 2008 @ 1:41 pm
The focus of the Intute repository search in the first phase is on UK repositories. It currently makes searchable the contents of any UK repository that supports the OAI-PMH harvesting standard (as does OAIster). The next phase of the work of the Intute repository will take things a step further. the project team is conducting research in order to identify application requirements that take into account the challenges of de-duplication, aggregation by semantics, context and meaning.