UK Institutional Repositary Search and IESR

A presentation by MIMAS (University of Manchester) delivered at the HEA Annual Conference 2010.

The presentation covers the UK Institutional Repository Search (IRS) project currently searches over 102 UK HE institutional repositories accessing around 500 000 deposited documents and theses. Using the most advanced text-mining and neural-networking technologies it allows users to search and dynamically browse for a range of academic documents within UK IRs.