ScientificCommons.org aims to provide the most comprehensive and freely available access to scientific knowledge on the internet. Core functions and aims of the project fare to provide the identification of repositories, the indexing of full-text document
BASE is a multi-disciplinary search engine for scientifically relevant web resources harvested from OAI scientific repository servers. In addition to OAI metadata the library indexes selected web sites and local data collections, which can be searched via one single search interface in one go. created and developed by Bielefeld University Library. BASEsearch
SHERPA is investigating issues in the future of scholarly communication. services include: RoMEO - Publisher's copyright & archiving policies, JULIET - Research funders archiving mandates and guidelines, OpenDOAR worldwide Directory of Open Access Repositories, SHERPA Search - simple full-text search of UK repositories, DRIVER - developing a cross-European repository network infrastructure, and more