THE (Times Higher Education) magazine has reported a new search engine, just developed by the Open University. CORE has been developed to allow researchers "to search all of the papers held in the UK's 142 open-access repositories".
Try it out here:- http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search
Reviewed by JURN (a Wordpress blog about such things), it didn't get spectacular results. They suggest comparing CORE with OpenDoar, a search engine developed by Nottingham University. (Whittaker tried searching for Scottish Song Collectors. OpenDoar was very successful. CORE? No score at all!)
But don't take someone else's word for it - have a go yourself!
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