Useful links

Publications on AURA are indexed by mainstream search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc) and specialised academic search engines.

Specialised academic search engines

OAIster is a catalog of digital resources that provide access to digital resources by 'harvesting' their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
ROAR (Registry of Open Access Repositories) promotes open access to the research literature through institutional archives. This registry monitors overall growth in the number of ePrint archives and maintain a list of ePrints sites (the software used by AURA).
OpenDOAR (Directory of Open Access Repositories) is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. It presents the list of worldwide repositories.
Intute searches across UK academic eprints repositories allowing advanced search and innovative access to the information, such as personalised alerts.
EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service) is a British Library service to access theses produced by UK Higher Education.

Publishing Research Consortium projects presents work in support of global research into scholarly communication and the impact of publishing in research and teaching.
Sherpa investigates issues in the future of scholarly communication, supporting institutional repositories to facilitate worldwide dissemination of research.
RoMEO presents a summary of permissions normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer agreement.
Juliet presents a summary of policies given by various research funders as part of their grant awards.
Copyright Toolbox explains authors the implications of publisher agreements and identify issues that should be considered when a scholarly work is submitted to a journal.
SPARC has some further resources for authors.
Scholar's Copyright Addendum Engine helps authors to generate a PDF form that can be attach to a journal publisher's copyright agreement to ensure that certain rights are retained.

19 May 2009