Barbara Quint, OCLC Ingests OAIster: Pearls to Follow

"At the beginning of this year, OCLC...agreed to take over the running of the venerable open access service OAIster...from the University of Michigan....At the end of October, OCLC announced that it had completed the transition. The WorldCat.org service now includes all the OAIster records. Users of the old OAIster.org site will now be automatically shifted over to an OCLC-based site....This is just the beginning, however. OCLC has also merged the content of two other open access files --ArchiveGrid and CAMIO-- into WorldCat.org. In January, OCLC will launch a separate OAIster file, allowing users to reach just this repository content guide. As with WorldCat.org, the new OAIster-only file will be accessible for free. The experience gained from handling OAIster has led to improvements in the flexibility of WorldCat.org's infrastructure itself. More improvements are in the offing for OAIster from applying other OCLC features...."