http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

RSP Repository Services DayUniversity of Nottingham, April 2008

Mary RobinsonSHERPA European Development Officer

SHERPA, University of Nottingham, UKmary.robinson@nottingham.ac.uk

OAIster and BASE (and others)

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

OAIster - www.oaister.org

• University of Michigan

• Set up in 2002

• Multidisciplinary

• 947 resources searched

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

OAIster - www.oaister.org

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

BASE - www.base-search.net

• University of Bielefeld

• Set up in 2004

• Multidisciplinary

• 682 resources searched but less duplication

• English and German

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

BASE - www.base-search.net

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

Range of resources

Multidisciplinary

• BASE

• OAIster

• OpenDOAR (using Google custom search)

• ROAR (using Google custom search)• see Open Archives Initiative

http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html

http://www.sherpa.ac.uk

Range of resources

National / Type specific

• EThOS - www.ethos.ac.uk

• DART-Europe - www.dart-europe.eu

• Intute RS - www.intute.ac.uk/irs

• Nora - www.ub.uio.no/nora/

• Pleiadi - http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/

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Range of resources

Subject specific

• ArXiv - http://arxiv.org/

• Avano - http://www.ifremer.fr/avano/

• ChemRefer http://www.chemrefer.com/

• PubMed - searches UK PubMed Central http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/

• see Open Archives Initiative http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html

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Thank you!