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Collectors and Directories

Collectors and Directories

  • Base (2004): Promoted by Bielefeld University Library, this platform gathers academic resources in open access and is one of the largest of its kind in the world.
  • Catalònica: A portal that provides access to the digital collections of Catalonia. It indexes both born-digital and digitised materials found in libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions, including books, magazines, newspapers, manuscripts, incunabula, scores, sounds, audiovisuals, objects, paintings, photographs, and much more, forming part of the cultural memory and knowledge generated in Catalonia.
  • Core: An open access content aggregator for scientific documents, managed by the Open University and Jisc. It collects open access articles and full-text resources from thousands of journals and repositories (institutional and thematic) worldwide.
  • DART-Europe: An association of research libraries and consortia working together to improve global access to European research theses. It provides access to over one million open access research theses from more than 500 universities across 28 European countries and is endorsed by LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche).
  • Europeana (2008): An EU project that links to 4,6 million digital documents, including images, texts, sounds, and videos. Some are world-famous, while others are hidden treasures from European museums, galleries, archives, libraries, and audiovisual collections.
  • Hispana (2006): An advanced resource for accessing digital information produced by Spanish institutions, formed through the interconnection of their databases. It provides access to 1,047,007 digital objects from 111 repositories.
  • Merlot (1997): A repository that offers thousands of open learning materials and provides content creation tools led by an international community of educators, students, and researchers.
  • OAIster (2002): A project from the University of Michigan aimed at creating a collection of easily accessible academic digital resources. It contains nearly 23 million records, including e-books, journal articles, audio files, and images. Since 2011, it has been integrated into OCLC WorldCat, the largest collective catalogue in the world.
  • OpenAIRE (2014): A platform that integrates the DRIVER project (Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research), which collects scientific publications from European repositories. It hosts over 1 million documents from 250 repositories in 29 countries.
  • Recolecta (2008): A repository sponsored by the Fundación para la Ciencia y la Tecnología (FECYT) and the Red Bibliotecas Universitarias Española (REBIUN), which collects freely accessible scientific output from various institutional repositories across Spain.
  • La Referencia, the Federated Network of Institutional Repositories of Scientific Publications: A Latin American network of open access repositories, supporting national open access strategies in the region. It provides a platform with interoperability standards, sharing, and increasing visibility for scientific production from higher education and research institutions.

Consortium Digital Repositories

  • CORA: Research Data Repository
  • TDX: Online doctoral theses
  • RACO: Catalan Open Access Magazines
  • Recercat: Deposit of Research in Catalonia
  • MDC: Digital Memory of Catalonia
  • MDX: Online Teaching Materials

Other directories

 

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