Australian Libraries and electronical resources
Australia is one of the leading countries bringing the libraries one step further into the future. With several very flexible solutions and possibilities to export metadata. The have several projects, to mention some of them:
Arrow-National Discovery Services
National Library of Australia
National Library of Australia-E-Resources
National Library of Australia-Picure Australia
National Library of Australia-MusicAustralia
The basic [...]

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Grazr & BlogBridge 6.0
The worst thing about a blog is definetly a inactive blog. I am sorry folks, being sick for more than a week is not helping frequent posting. You could all see that I have tried to clean up the right column of my blog since last time. I have removed some of [...]

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OPEN ACCESS/REPOSITORIES
A growing number of publications is now being presented in open access archives for free. This is the obvious way to go into the future, away from the tyranny of big publishers pricing their “offerings” to an insane price. Especially poor countries and countries having research done in other languages than those reaching [...]

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SCIELO- Scientific electronic library online # Social sciencesPortugues & espanol language journal titles available in english fulltext 
“The objective of SciELO Social Sciences English Edition is to contribute to the promotion of international access to Latin American scientific [...]

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VU-DARE
VU-DARE is the Digital Academic Repository (DARE) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
This repository is open for anyone at the VU as a place to capture, store, index, preserve and redistribute VU faculty and staff research materials in digital formats.
Most research material in the Repository is in dutch.

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The Internet Archive # Open-Access Text Archive
The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive [...]

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HighWirePress Standford University-Free Online Full-text Articles
HighWire Press is the largest archive of free full-text science on Earth! As of 10/2/07, we are assisting in the online publication of 1,814,462 free full-text articles and 4,457,725 total articles. There are 10 sites with free trial periods, and 43 completely free sites. 247 sites have free back issues, [...]

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The DART-Europe E-theses Portal (DEEP)
Here you could find some interesting doctoral theses in different subjects.
“DEEP currently provides access to 13224 doctoral theses from 23 DART-Europe partners”.
More information about the Dart Europe program could be read here

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African Women’s Bibliographic Dabase
“This English language database contains over 22,000 citations from 1986 to current. The database indexes six types of materials:books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; Masters theses and Ph.D. dissertations as well as a few B.A. theses and honors papers; conference papers; and videocassettes.More about [...]

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Australasian Digital Theses program
Free fulltext database of digital theses.
“The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities. The theses will be available worldwide via the web. The ideal behind the program is to provide access to, and [...]

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