Arthur,

the .csv is on it's way and I would appreciate it to get some more URLs to 
repositories in Australia and New Zealand from you. At this occasion I should 
appeal to all repository managers that it is useful to register at OpenDOAR 
or Open Archives. As a OAI-Service-Provider we know a lot of repositories in  
Europe which are not registered and if you compare our list with the list 
from our colleagues from OAIster you will clearly see that they know some 
repositories in the US which we don't know and vice versa. 

To create country-specific searches is just a spin-off product for us, people 
who want this can have this from Google or - and that was my point: from us. 
Usually we don't think in national categories either ...

Dirk



Am Samstag 07 März 2009 00:37:15 schrieb Arthur Sale:
> Dirk
>
> Thanks for that. I have just checked out the search for Germany and indeed
> it performs as it should. There is clearly a need to have a directory of
> these country-specific search facilities, unless BASE can indeed do a
> map-based or ISO-code country search.
>
> I add that I personally don't find country-specific searches of much use to
> me (I am a computer scientist after all with a usual need for global
> knowledge not country-specific). But I acknowledge that some people do find
> them useful when searching for governance issues, flora and fauna, and
> similar things. It took me just over an hour to create a custom search for
> another country than Australia, so it is really easy to do.
>
> Can I ask that you provide your list of searched repositories as a
> downloadable .csv file (or send it to me as one) as it is pretty useless as
> it is on the web except for doing a search for a particular place. I know I
> can highlight a specific country code but this make analysis very time
> consuming. I have my suspicions about your coverage of Australian
> repositories, and I know that a single country in Africa has more
> repositories than you list for the whole of Africa. If I can extract all
> the Australian entries (and the New Zealand ones too) I can perhaps assist
> you by providing extra URLs.
>
> Thanks for your response and best wishes from far-off and sunny Tasmania
>
> Arthur Sale

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