About OAIster

OAIster currently provides access to 16,167,543 records from 969 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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News & Updates

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Last update: 14 May 2008
Next update: 21 May 2008

New data contributors harvested:

• ARROW@DIT
• Atatürk Üniversitesi Açik Arşiv Sistemi
• Centro Internacional de la Papa (CIP) Publications
• DEA @ DEENK
• Frattura ed Integrità Strutturale
• IUScholarWorks Journals
• KOPS-Datenbank OPUS
• Northwestern University: World War II Poster Collection
• University of Nevada, Las Vegas Digital Collections