OAI & RSS
Library Cataloging

OAI & RSS


my.OAI, a full-featured search engine to a selected list of metadata databases from the Open Archives Initiative project has added support for download search results in RSS format. Seen on Open Access News.

myPubMed also has that ability.





- The Bielefeld Academic Search Engine
The BASE search engine has an interesting tool package.The search engine BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) It is a tool for searching Open Access contents and automatic classification is active since 2004 and includes 37,4 million documents from...

- Open Worldcat
The Open WorldCat Web site now includes information about tools that can help you more conveniently search for library materials from your PC desktop. The three tools featured on this page are:Yahoo! Toolbar. This special edition on the Yahoo! Toolbar...

- Widgets
I just noticed Konfabulator is now available for Windows. I'll have to download this and play with it a bit when I get some time. In their gallery of widgets there are none that are library apps. Some are pretty close, search Amazon, search IMDB,...

- Oai
Here is a nice use of the Open Archives Initiative, Citebase. This searches arXiv, cogprints and Biomed Central. "Citebase allows researchers to search across free, full-text research literature eprint archives, with results ranked according to many criteria...

- Open Archives Initiative
Open Archives Protocol for Metadata Harvesting v.2.0 scheduled for release. Here is a description of the OAI from their FAQ: The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination...



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