"OAIster is a union catalog of millions of records representing open access resources that was built by harvesting from open access collections worldwide using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). Today, OAIster includes more than 30 million records representing digital resources from more than 1,500 contributors." -OCLCA wide range of open access digital resources is included in the database including digital texts, audio files, video files, images, data sets, scanned books, journals and newspapers. With a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2002, the University of Michigan developed OAIster and it was designed to act as a search engine to capture publicly available digital resources in a single location. In 2009, OCLC partnered with the University of Michigan to continue to develop the resource that provides an access point to over 30 million records. There are over 1,500 contributors to the database. OAIster can be found on the Hewes Library's Databases: Find Articles page.
Access to databases is limited to the current students, staff, and faculty of Monmouth College.
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