Services

The DARE program stimulates the development of services based on the data in institutional repositories.

Since 2003 projects are delivering concrete end-products or services. Some of these results are available through DAREnet.

• ARNEX: Agricultural Repository News Exchange provides notifications of research results in agriculture.
• Connecting-Africa ; Connecting-Africa pilot service for African Studies in the Netherlands and the result of the DARC project. The web service provides access to African research information and materials produced in the Netherlands. The full text of about 100 titles published by the African Studies Centre in Leiden are accessible.
• DARELUX: an important step on the way towards permanent storage of scientific data.
• DARLIN (Dutch ARchive for Library and INformation sciences) gives access to Dutch publications on library and information science. Additionally an Open Access multimedia journal for new publications in this field, DARLIN journal, will be available shortly.
• DONOR (DONOR literally stands (in Dutch) for “data educational Netherlands online research” [Data Onderwijskundig Nederland Online Research]). Its aim is to provide online access to past and current research data on education.
• e-repository for Dutch Archaeology (e-Depot Nederlandse Archeologie (eDNA): contains a selection of the digital research data of Dutch archaeologists.
• HBO Knowledge Bank; The HBO Knowledge Bank makes the products of the Universities of Applied Science easy to find and conveniently accessible. The capital base of knowledge from students, lecturers and associate professors of the Universities of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands is made available to interested parties throughout the world in the HBO Knowledge Bank.
• NARCIS; offers central access to Dutch research information. NARCIS is a portal, where the user can find (full text) publications, information about current research, researchers and scientific institutes, and datasets. All this information is searchable at the same time.
• PROMAS: Integrating multiple academic information resources into a researcher's profiling tool.
• SCHOLAR's economic community; aims at bringing together researchers who work in the field of education and labor economics, by providing an online research environment
• Theses Online ; is the start of a national database of graduate papers or extended theses taken from OAI-compatible institutional repositories, classified according to discipline, including a search engine.
• Truth or DARE / Utrecht Law Review; an Open Access journal that offers an international platform for cross-border legal research.
• VetPortal; provides personalise access to relevant information on veterinary medicine.

Other Services

Services, based on institutional repositories are also being developed and offered outside of the DARE community.

• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine) is the multi-disciplinary search engine to scholarly internet resources at Bielefeld University. Among them are numerous academic full text archives that are accessible through repositories. Most of the documents are freely accessible and can be searched on the basis of metadata or full text.
• Google Scholar; Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. You can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from institutional repositories, academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other scholarly organizations.
• OAIster, (a project of the University of Michigan), enables easy searching in a collection of freely available, difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital repositories.
• OpenDOAR - the Directory of Open Access Repositories - has released a trial search service which allows full-text searching from its list of repositories. OpenDOAR provides a global directory of freely available open access repositories that have been assessed as being of academic value. The search service offers a full-text search service from this list of quality-controlled repositories.