Encore Harvesting Services

OAI-PMH Harvesting at St. Lawrence University Library (NY)

Back to The Land, Back to the Library
Encore is a modern tool for easy discovery of anything your library wants to offer, and, by extension, it is an easy way to promote aspects of the collections that are truly local. An particularly “earthy” example is St. Lawrence University Library’s (NY) pilot project to build, digitize [...]

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St. Lawrence University Selects Encore Harvesting Services

St. Lawrence University (NY) utilized Encore Harvesting Services to produce a single unified search of its OAI-PMH-compliant collections. The first collection is an institutional repository of seven regional liberal arts schools, called LASR (Liberal Arts Scholarly Repository), described in Qualified Dublin Core(SM) on a DSpace™ platform; the second is an image and video database of [...]

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Tear Down Barriers—Easily Integrate OAI-Compliant Collections

If before October of 2008 you knew next to nothing about the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Willa Cather collection, your lack of knowledge might be forgiven. Reference to that collection—over 200,000 items, including print, archival, and electronic media—was scattered across four different data platforms.

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