Research Scope is federated harvesting and discovery service that provides an appealing and useful single point of access to open access research in Ireland.
It works by harvesting information from research repositories across the country; by re-presenting them via ResearchScope as well as the original home repositories, the information is made more visible to web search engines. ResearchScope is powered by a piece of open source software called Harvester, produced by the Public Knowledge Project, a Canadian group based in Simon Frasier University. A video presentation about ResearchScope is available via YouTube.
This is a useful and interesting model for the Welsh Repository Network to consider and we will look at this in more detail in our next business meeting.
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Following and communicating with CAIRSS
14 years ago
As an add-on to this post the previous IRIScotland project developed a cross-repository search of the Scottish Institution repository's available from: http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/iriscotland/
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