PKP Open Archives Harvester was successfully installed and
my EPrints archive was harvested.
Additionally, I harvested records from three other repositories. A federated collection is important to gather
all pertinent information in one place.
When harvesting one has the option to harvest all sets or select from a
list of sets which varies according to the archive. As a result, it is important for a service
provider to provide a list of sets to select from when harvesting in order to
reduce harvest time and also to have the option to only harvest relevant information
versus all of it. The website http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html
provides a list of registered service providers (although some links are broken). The Networked Computer Science Technical Reference Library was partially working. The site has a basic and advanced search, yet the screen looked the same for both. Additionally, typing in the 'search for' text box would reveal no results. Scirus (for scientific information only) is well-organized and provides positive results when conducting a search. ScientificCommons is cluttered on the homepage; it has a list of new publications and an advertisement. I conducted a basic search and the results took too long to display, this was not the case with Scirus.
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