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February 11, 2008
The rise of the harvesters
The Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and the University Libraries Network Spanish (REBIUN) just to launch gathers: Collector open science, which joins the different collectors (harvesters) who were already operating in Spain, as ROAI, maintained by the Ministry of Culture, Dialnet offered from the University of La Rioja and constantly growing or Global TDX, managed by the Consortium of University Libraries of Catalunya and from there you can check the thesis in open access in Spain. These collectors national him join other internationals of great importance, because in their databases hosting a thousand information repositories, such as OAIster oScientific Commons. Collectors are metabuscadores employing descriptive data (metadata) of the documents contained in the various repositories existing and available for free consultation. Most of the software that are used to manage repositories use the OAI-PMH, which uses Dublin Core metadata for the representation of its contents. Collectors stored metadata from different repositories elected to provide the user with information on documents in open access and a link for downloading from the repository where they are stored. Thanks to OAI-PMH, the chances of recovery of the information contained in a repository multiply, and that the documents can be accessed directly from the repository that contains or reach them through the various collectors who have included such repository among his collection of resources on open access.
---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.
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Published: February 11, 2008
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