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OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - has released a trial search service for academics and researchers around the world which allows full-text searching from its list of repositories.

OpenDOAR already provides a global directory of freely available open access repositories that have been assessed by OpenDOAR staff as being of academic value. Now, with its new service, it also offers a full-text search service from this list of quality-controlled repositories. The trial service has been made possible through the recent launch by Google of its Custom Search Engine, which allows OpenDOAROpenDOAR’s approach to quality assurance helps to minimise spurious or junk results and lead more directly to useful and relevant information to define a search service based on the Directory’s holdings.

OpenDOAR’s approach to quality assurance helps to minimise spurious or junk results and lead more directly to useful and relevant information.  The repositories listed by OpenDOAR have been assessed for their full-text holdings, helping to ensure that results have come from academic repositories with open access to their contents. 

To see the full announcement and to access the new search facility, please go to: OpenDOAR 

OpenDOAR also reports that the directory was selected as the leader in a global survey of 23 repository listings carried out by JohnHopkinsUniversity for the purposes of analysing repositories and their holdings. For further information, please go to: Survey paper

OpenDOAR is funded by JISC, The Open Societies Institute, the Consortium of Research Libraries and SPARCEurope