What is IESR?
IESR is the UK's free catalogue of information about electronic resources and research collections. It provides an academic "Yellow Pages" to support discovery and use of scholarly resources. Use IESR to search and browse a wide range of open access repositories, library collections and catalogues, image collections, datasets and e-learning collections. Subject coverage includes arts and humanities, social sciences, health and medicine, science and technology.
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Use
IESR provides a gateway to information about significant research collections in the UK. Discover new resources by searching or browsing, use the search plug-ins within your own site or use the machine interfaces to exploit IESR content within your own applications.
Contribute
If your collection is not represented in IESR then you can submit details here. IESR content is indexed by search engines so by contributing to IESR you will promote your collection to a global audience, improving access and usage.
News
IESR call for case studies
25 February 2010
We invite proposals for case studies to illustrate use of IESR in different contexts. Up to five case studies will be commissioned in April 2010; the payment for each study will be £1000. Expressions of interest should be sent via email by 12 April 2010 with a short outline of the intended use case.