June Link of the Month - 200th Post!

Link of the Month : OAIster http://oaister.umdl.umich.edu/o/oaister/

Looking for something like "An account of the manners and customs of the Aborigines and the state of their relations with Europeans" by Edward John Eyre? or his "Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1"? Try OAIster!

OAIster is a project of the University of Michigan Digital Library Production Service, whose goal is "to create a collection of freely available, previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources". The collection at the present time contains 7,328,353 records from 634 institutions worldwide. These digital records include items such as electronic books, online journals, audio files, images, movies, and reference texts. OAIster has an easy to use search interface that allows you to search its records by keyword, author, title, or by language. You can also choose to limit your search to text, audio, video, image or dataset, as well as how the results are sorted. On the left hand side of the results page the institutions from where the records are retrieved are listed. One could spend a lot of time at this site just looking at the unique resources OAIster has collected.