====== Open Data Sources ======

There is a great deal of freely-available data which may be useful to add to your local VuFind® instance. Authority records from large organizations and standards bodies can help augment your index with cross-references, and Open Access publications can expand the collection that you present to your users.

This page links to a variety of open resources that you might find useful, most of which can be harvested and ingested using standard VuFind® tools. Feel free to add new sources as you find them.

===== Authority Data =====

  * [[indexing:open_data_sources:fast|OCLC FAST]] - free, general purpose authority data for names, subjects and more
  * [[indexing:open_data_sources:mesh|MeSH]] - medical subject headings

===== Bibliographic Data =====

  * [[indexing:open_data_sources:doaj|Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)]]
  * [[indexing:open_data_sources:intech|InTech Open]] - metadata about open access eBooks in the fields of Science, Technology and Medicine
  * [[indexing:open_data_sources:ndltd|Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)]]
  * [[indexing:open_data_sources:pubmed_central|PubMed Central OAI Service]] - metadata from the PubMed Central archive

===== Related Pages =====

  * [[indexing:open_data_sources:related_projects|Potentially Relevant Projects]] - A list of complementary projects not currently consumed by core VuFind tools, but potentially worth investigating in the future.
  * [[indexing:open_data_sources:linked_data|Linked Data / Linked Open Data]] - A list of resources related to and about linked data and linked open data.
  * [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-570|Shared Index]] - In the past, there was some discussion about building a shared VuFind index of open content. The project never moved past the idea stage, but if you are interested, you can join the discussion on the [[http://vufind.org/jira/browse/VUFIND-570|VUFIND-570 JIRA ticket]].