Help on OAIster (Open Archives Intiative)

OAIster is a discovery tool that contains no content but allows a user to search the web for digital collections. 

• contains records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide 
• more than 23 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,100 contributors
• discovery tools means it will lead to open collections but OAIster does not contain any content

OAIster includes:

• digitized (scanned) books and journal articles
• digital text
• audio files (wav, mp3)
• video files (mp4, QuickTime)
• photographic images (jpeg, tiff, gif)
• data sets (downloadable statistical information)
• theses and research papers

The advanced search has options to enter a variety of search terms.
Dropdown menus allow limit by language and resource type.