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<FONT FACE="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:11pt'><B>University of Michigan and OCLC form partnership to ensure long-term access to OAIster database<BR>
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DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 21 January 2009—The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have formed a partnership that will ensure continued public access to open-archive collections through the OAIster database, and will expand the visibility of these collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services.<BR>
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Under the partnership, OAIster.org will continue to function as the public interface to OAIster collections, through funding provided by OCLC to the University of Michigan. Later in 2009, metadata harvesting operations will transfer from the University of Michigan to OCLC.<BR>
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Read the full press release at: <a href="http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/20096.htm">http://www.oclc.org/us/en/news/releases/20096.htm</a><BR>
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Kat Hagedorn <BR>
OAIster/Metadata Harvesting Librarian <BR>
DLXS Bibliographic Class Coordinator <BR>
Digital Library Production Service <BR>
University of Michigan <BR>
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<a href="http://www.oaister.org/">http://www.oaister.org/</a> <BR>
<a href="http://www.dlxs.org/">http://www.dlxs.org/</a> <BR>
email: <a href="khage@umich.edu">khage@umich.edu</a> <BR>
phone: 734-615-7618</SPAN></FONT>
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