News & Updates
| 17 Jul 2008 | Read our recent article: Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs. |
| 27 Jun 2008 | OAIster aggregates records from more than 1000 repositories as of today! |
| 12 Jun 2008 | There will be infrequent updates to OAIster in the months of July and August due to changes in how we process records, full harvests of all repositories, and vacation time. |
| 12 Dec 2007 | UM has developed an OAI toolkit for both data providers and harvesters. |
| 12 Dec 2007 | Using this toolkit, we data provide (and then harvest) from our MBooks collection, materials digitized by Google in partnership with UM. |
| 2 Sep 2007 | OAIster can now be searched using search plug-ins from your browser. |
| 18 Jul 2007 | Our publication "Enhancing Search and Browse Using Automated Clustering of Subject Metadata", further describing work done in our OAI test portal, has been published in D-Lib Magazine. |
| 20 Jun 2007 | Our publication "Subject Metadata Enrichment using Statistical Topic Models", describing work done in our OAI test portal, has been published in the JCDL '07 proceedings. |
| 19-24 Apr 2007 | We presented at the CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5) in Geneva, Switzerland and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Spring Forum in Pasadena, CA. |
| 21 Mar 2007 | OAIster has been included as a resource at SciDev.net and as an SRU feed in Sente.  |
| 21 Mar 2007 | Our most common complaint is about searching speed. We have been and will continue to work on this with server upgrades and tests of indexing software. In the meantime, we apologize for delays in retrieval. |
| 22 Feb 2007 | Character encoding issues should be resolved. |
| 22 Feb 2007 | Intermittent network problems are causing some searches to fail. We are investigating and diagnosing these problems. |
| 24 Jan 2007 | OAIster has just added its 10 millionth record! (Press release.) And we have a new design! Many pages have been modified, so please explore. Take our survey [now closed] and let us know what you think. |
| 24 Jan 2007 | Character encoding problems in the search results should be resolved by the end of February. A complete re-harvest of all contributors will also be done in February. |
| 23 Jan 2007 | Kat Hagedorn was part of a videoconference hosted by the Mediasite User Group at Central Michigan University. CMU_Hagedorn.ppt Link to archived videoconference [login required] |
| 15 Dec 2006 | The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Portal, based on the OAIster design, prototypes clustered subject searching. Choose a broad topic and/or sub-topic to limit your search to. |
| 10 Nov 2006 | Kat Hagedorn presented at the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Fall Forum in Boston. http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2006/presentations/seaman1106.pdf |
| 7 Nov 2006 | OAIster is included in Current Web Contents at Thomson Scientific.
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| 23 Feb 2006 | We have SRU-enabled OAIster so that it can be included in federated search engines. SearchTools at the University of Michigan Libraries is an example of a federated search engine. Choose the "General Interest" category to see OAIster's inclusion. |
| 12 Dec 2005 | If you use Firefox, you can add OAIster as a search engine plugin in your browser toolbar.
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| 15 Mar 2005 | Kat Hagedorn is named a Library Journal Mover & Shaker. See the full text of the article. |
