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OAIster
is a union catalog of more than 19
million digital resources from over 1,000
organizations developed by the
University
of
Michigan
and harvested using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives
Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
Digital resources in OAIster
include items
such as:
o
Digitized
(i.e., scanned) books and articles
o
Born-digital texts
o
Audio
files (e.g., wav, mp3)
o
Images
(e.g., tiff, gif)
o
Movies (e.g., mp4, quicktime)
o
Datasets
(e.g., downloadable statistics files)
Collections in OAIster include:
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Theses
o
Technical
reports
o
Research Papers
o
Image CollectionsHelp with searching is available by clicking
the Help link at the bottom of the database.
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