New Searchable Subset Added to Scirus: Digital Archives
From the Scirus site:
Digital Archives consists of a subset of valuable collections found on the Web from institutional repositories, including preprint (pre-view), postprints (post-review) and reprints (published) of scientific papers, conference papers and posters, theses, reports, books and book chapters, magazines articles, web products, project descriptions, and other published or unpublished documents. The collections currently covered in Digital Archives are: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Australian National University, Università di Bologna, University of Calgary, Cornell University, Cranfield University, Universität Dortmund, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Glasgow, Göteborg University, Hokkaido University, University of Michigan Humanities Text Initiative, Kanazawa University, Kumamoto University, Kyushu University, Universiteit Leiden, Lund University, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University Knowledge Bank, University of Oregon Scholars' Bank, University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, University of Southampton, Texas A&M University, Waseda University, University of Washington and E-LIS.
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