University of Michigan and OCLC form partnership to ensure long-term access to OAIster database  http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/…

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OCLC recognizes that open archive collections are critical for scholarly research, communications and scholarship. To that end, OCLC commits to building on the success of OAIster by identifying open archive collections of interest to libraries and researchers, and ensuring that open archive collections will be freely discoverable and accessible to information seekers worldwide.

Starting in late January 2009, while OAIster continues to be freely available at the www.oaister.org Web site, OCLC will host a version of OAIster on OCLC’s FirstSearch platform and make it available through subscriptions to the FirstSearch Base Package at no additional charge.
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