A new way to access the OAIster database

OCLC has announced that a freely accessible site for searching only OAIster records is available.
Currently OAIster gives access to 23 million records contributed by more than 1100 organizations worldwide.
In OAIster database you can find 220 000 digital objects form Poland. Most of resources is from the biggest and most popular digital libraries. Besides them you can search records from services addressed to small group of specialists. This includes journals from Polish universities (Institute of Physics Wrocław University of Technology, Faculty of Transport Silesian University of Technology) and other scientific institutions (Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences,
Geological Society of Poland), which you won’t find in digital libraries. Interesting are resources from medical publishing houses and National Bank of Poland.
If you want to increase visibility of your digital resources you can contribute metadata to OAIster. Instructions can be found at this site.

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