The University College Dublin School of Information and Library Studies has developed OJAX, an open-source, Ajax-powered metasearch engine for OAI-compliant repositories. It can be set up to search one repository or many. From today's announcement:
[The OJAX prototype] provides a highly dynamic user interface to a federated search service for OAI-PMH compatible repository metadata. OJAX is simple, non-threatening but powerful. It attempts to minimise upfront user investment and provide immediate dynamic feedback, thus encouraging experimentation and enabling enactive learning. Features of OJAX: [1] Auto-completion of search terms, [2] Triggering of auto-searches, [3] Dynamically scrollable search results - no more navigating between pages, [4] Auto-expansion of search result details, [5] Rapid sorting of results.
Posted by
Peter Suber at 11/28/2005 10:28:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
