Leeds Met Repository Open Search Version 2.0
This is a bit of a trailer for our shiny new interface that I hope will go live in the next week or so and a run down of some of the new features. It’s far from perfect and should still be seen as a beta – we very much need real users to start using it and I’m feeling a little nervous about how it will be received as I know how much work Mike, in particular, has put into it. The interface has evolved from an SRU client developed for by IRISS – http://www.iriss.org.uk/learnx – which is available under GNU General Public Licence v.3 at

Article on Open Educational Resources in Times Higher Education
Get it out in the open by Rebecca Attwood (24th September 2009)

Testing the VLE PowerLink
To be honest, PowerLink is probably overstating it a bit but it is a link that allows us to search intraLibrary from the VLE and it does work. Sort of. But it’s not very powerful. The main issue is the very basic nature of the search facility – just a simple search box with no way to perform a more advanced search: So it’s not a great deal of use unless you know what you’re looking for. The search functionality does support Boolea