PUBLIC MARKS with tag eprints

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Library of Medicine® (NLM) undertook an 18-month project to evaluate, test and recommend digital repository software and systems to support NLM's collection and preservation of a wide variety of digital objects. This article outlines the methodology NLM used to analyze the landscape of repository software and select three systems for in-depth testing. Finally, the article discusses the evaluation results and next steps for NLM. This project followed an earlier NLM working group, which created functional requirements and identified key policy issues for an NLM digital repository to aid in building NLM's collection in the digital environment.

The Honeycomb project will store and manage large amounts of fixed content - data that never changes over the course of its life (YouTube videos, x-rays, digital books, etc.)

A JISC project investigating and developing a joint approach to OAI statistics gathering and sharing.

Map for Institutional Repositories (by platform, date of registration, ...)

"It is only a matter of time before the RSS and OAI worlds merge...."

"Citebase citation-ranked search is a registered OAI service provider, and now serves arXiv users. GNU EPrints builds Web archives that comply with the OAI protocol".

"ePrints-UK harvests metadata from approximately 30 institutional repositories on a daily basis. A demonstration of a simple search service based on the harvested metadata has been made available now".