In the Netherlands the scholarly portal NARCIS (http://www.narcis.nl/) harvests the repositories with OA publications of the Dutch universities and other scholarly institutions. I am interested in the harvesting of international subject repositories and the collecting of relevant articles of publishers.
The advantage of a UK only aggregate is that if every country has a 'national aggregation point' like NARCIS in the end one can 'connect (aggregate)' all those national aggregation points. It is a start to harvest the national repositories.
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On 10/27/13 10:19 AM, "Thomas Krichel" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
Nick Sheppard writes
In the uk (and internationally) repositories are "diluted" with metadata
records,
Yes. And they are multi-purpose with the number of genuine academic
documents presumably in decline.
See also http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/projects
I looked at core. I did not see it to afford bulk harvesting.
But of what you write invalidates my principal problem. I don't
see the utility of a UK only aggregate here. It would be better
to provide world-wide aggregates related to specific object
types.
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