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The Failure of Middleware, Part 7: OAI and Google Scholar

The Open Archives Initiative develops interoperability standards with the goal of developing easy ways to access digital content and improve scholarly communication. They have developed a protocol for harvesting XML-formatted…
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The Failure of Middleware, Part 6: Link Resolvers

Link Resolvers allow users to move from a citation to the actual article (so long as the library has access to it), regardless of which database the article happens to…
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The Failure of Middleware, Part 5: The Unintegrated Library System & Federated Search

Sorry for the delay in posting the rest of this, but we were flying to Florida yesterday to visit family. Nice to be in consistently warm weather for a few…
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