Looking at University of Arizona's Institutional Repository, I did a search on “Auto” and the first entry was “The Low Rider Ritual: Social Mobility On Wheels”. It was easy to see it came from the “Arizona Anthropologist” collection. It can be useful to search this collection, but it is so diverse that there may not be many collections that overlap in their subjects. So having them all together may be convenient, but it may not yield any results from multiple collections. Another one I looked at, the Perseus collections. It was easy again to find which collection a particular item was from. This collection is more homogeneous, being texts and other artifacts from antiquity. So I was able to find things from multiple collections using a single search term. The third one I looked at, Norwegian Open Research Archives, is similar to Perseus in that the type of information is similar and I am able to search for a term and get information from multiple repositories. The archive is listed next to the item.
Regarding oaister.org, this is good if you want a site that you can search on a large number of repositories. It would allow you to find a large number of items if that is what you are looking for. The negative can be the large amount of information that can be returned and the amount of time it may take to search. Looking through the large amount of information and trying to make sense of all of it may be a problem also. It is like what you have to deal with when using google’s large amount of information.
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