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Milestones: OAIster Database Approaches 1,000,000 Records, ResourceShelf, November 11, 2006. Excerpt:
We just noticed that OAIster from the University of Michigan is quickly approaching 1 million entries.... The next update comes in a few days but as of now it’s home to 9,771,738 records from 701 institutions. Here’s a list of those institutions. Congrats to the entire OAIster Team Btw, CiteSeer is still going strong now with more than 700,000 entries, searchable citations, and searchable acknowledgements. See Also: The Milestones Will Continue As Elsevier’s ScienceDirect Service Will Serve Its 1 Billionth Article Download Next Week. This site offers lots of stats including the Top25 Hottest Articles. See Also: Database: New: Search through the OpenDOAR for repository content See Also: InfoTrac OneFile Now Home to More than 60 million entries and HighWire Press Gets Very Close to 1.5 million Free Full Text Entries.
We just noticed that OAIster from the University of Michigan is quickly approaching 1 million entries....
The next update comes in a few days but as of now it’s home to 9,771,738 records from 701 institutions. Here’s a list of those institutions.
Congrats to the entire OAIster Team
Btw, CiteSeer is still going strong now with more than 700,000 entries, searchable citations, and searchable acknowledgements.
See Also: The Milestones Will Continue As Elsevier’s ScienceDirect Service Will Serve Its 1 Billionth Article Download Next Week. This site offers lots of stats including the Top25 Hottest Articles.
See Also: Database: New: Search through the OpenDOAR for repository content
See Also: InfoTrac OneFile Now Home to More than 60 million entries and HighWire Press Gets Very Close to 1.5 million Free Full Text Entries.
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