openarchives.gr , the largest online portal for access to reputable Greek science and culture content, is now offered with a renewed visual design, improved content navigation and new search capabilities for users. www.openarchives.gr , which is developed and made available by the National Documentation Center (EKT), includes 68 collections (Institutional Repositories of Research Organizations, Journals, Digital Archives and Special Collections).
In the user-friendly environment of openarchives.gr, the user can, from a single access point, search more than 460,000 digital documents, such as scientific journals and journal archives, research publications, doctoral theses, diploma theses, photographic material, videos, maps, sheet music, engravings, etc., covering a wide range of subject areas such as History, Music, Economics or Marketing.
This content is distributed in individual digital libraries, repositories and collections on the internet and is difficult to locate by established search engines. At openarchives.gr the content is dynamic and is constantly updated with new collections, while existing ones are updated on a weekly basis with the most recent entries and changes.
The collections come from 50 reputable institutions from Greece and Cyprus, such as universities & ATEI, research centers, cultural institutions, scientific societies, public and municipal libraries, museums, archives and institutional collections. The National Archive of Doctoral Theses managed by the National Documentation Center, the Digitized Archive of Greek Music from the Lilian Voudouri Great Music Library and the digital collections of Greek magazines Cosmopolis and Plias from the University of Patras, are just some of the 68 interesting collections included in openarchives.gr.
For reputable content providers, openarchives.gr offers a unique service for showcasing their content to the general public. It allows the collection of information on the country's reputable digital content in a single portal, highlighting the providers, their content and their work and contributing to the unification and facilitation of search for users.
The EKT develops and offers openarchives.gr within the framework of its institutional role for the collection, organization, promotion and dissemination of the country's scientific and cultural production, in a manner consistent with international standards, as well as with the modern needs of users. The enrichment of openarchives.gr is continuous, with a view to better serving users and the promotion of new collections.
At the same time, EKT is expanding its collaborations with science and culture institutions with the aim of creating a strong and sustainable knowledge network. In this context, institutions that have reputable cultural and scientific content and are interested in making it available through the openarchives.gr search engine, can contact EKT.
The upgrade of the openarchives.gr portal was carried out within the framework of the Project “National Research and Technology Information System/Social Networks – User-Generated Content” (Operational Program “Digital Convergence”, NSRF, co-financed by Greece and the EU – European Regional Development Fund) (www.epset.gr), which is a main development project of the ESF.
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