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I suspect this might not be the best list to post this request on - if it's not I'd be grateful if someone could suggest a more appropriate forum. I'm trying to get an OAI-PMH harvester client running on a test server with the eventual aim of putting it onto a site I run (www.nottingham.ac.uk/nursing/sonet/) for our students and teachers to hunt for learning objects in remote repositories. For that, I need to a) find the repositories, which isn't so hard, and b) find their OAI-PMH service URLs, which is damned hard - I have to email each repository admin with a request.

So my request on here is: could folk point me towards LO repository directories which list the repository OAI-PMH (and for good measure, SRU/SRW) service URLs? The only one I'm aware of is OpenDOAR (http://www.opendoar.org/) which is a fine and growing effort, but is still somewhat incomplete - it doesn't, for instance, include JORUM or Intute in its list, both of which I know publish service URLs as I've got them.

There is of course OAIster, but whilst that lists contributor repositories it doesn't publish their service URLs.

Cheers

Fred

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