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On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Mark Jordan wrote: > Here in Canada we have been running a centralized search service for > Canadian IRs at http://carl-abrc-oai.lib.sfu.ca/ . It is using the PKP > Metadata OAI Harvester software (http://pkp.sfu.ca/harvester). We have > not yet moved to the latest version of this software, which is much > better than the original. (1) Why does the CARL search service cover only 12 archives when Canada has at least 32? http://archives.eprints.org/?country=ca&version=&type=&order=recordcount&submit=Filter (2) Why build these national and local restricted range OAI search engines instead of simply building restricted-range options into the full-spectrum OAI search engines such as OAIster? http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/ Stevan Harnad American Scientist Open Access Forum http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/American-Scientist-Open-Access-Forum.html http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/ http://openaccess.eprints.org/