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Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE) is a multi-disciplinary indexing and search service (hosted and operated by Bielefeld University Library), which harvests metadata from selected websites and data collections as well as from digital repositories supporting Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

COnnecting REpositories (CORE) is a service (developed by Knowledge Media Institute at Open University) aiming to facilitate free access to scholarly publications distributed across repository systems. CORE provides a full-text search facility, based on open metadata about resource relationships, by processing repository metadata and full-texts of Open Access resources.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an initiative (managed by Lund University Libraries) that aims to provide a comprehensive, quality-controlled directory of open access scientific and scholarly journals. It aims to increase the visibility and ease of use, thereby promoting increased usage and impact.

Global Digital Format Registry (GDFR) is an initiative (developed by Harvard University Library, with Mellon Foundation funding) to provide a distributed and replicated registry of format information populated and vetted by experts and enthusiasts world-wide. In 2009 the GDFR initiative joined forces with the UK National Archives' PRONOM registry initiative under a new name: the Unified Digital Formats Registry (UDFR).

IRIOS -2 is a JISC-funded project (managed by University of Sunderland) developing a proof-of-concept demonstrator supporting the import and export of research management data in CERIF format, linking research grant information and publications together. Filtering allows subsets of the data to be selected and exported in CERIF for use by third party applications such as Pure. In this project university research management data was successfully adapted and extended to include basic research grant information taken directly from a Research Council dataset (Shared Service Centre).

JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment (JHOVE) is a Java software library (developed by Harvard University Library and JSTOR) for detecting file formats, used for curation in institutional repositories. JHOVE provides functions to perform format-specific identification, validation, and characterization of digital objects.

JULIET is a registry (hosted and managed by SHERPA Services, based at University of Nottingham) providing summaries of funding agencies' grant conditions on self-archiving of research publications and data. This JULIET registry emerged from a multi-university SHERPA partnership formed for the SHERPA project (2002-2006), including a broad range of research-led universities actively interested in institutional repositories.

Kultivate is an institutional repository project (managed by University for the Creative Arts) demonstrating use of repositories in the creative and applied arts. This project established a framework for repository enhancements, services and tools based on ePrints and aimed to increase arts research deposit in the UK Higher Education sector.

OpenDOAR is a quality-assured registry service (maintained by SHERPA Services, based at University of Nottingham) providing a worldwide directory of academic open access repositories. OpenDOAR staff harvest and assign metadata to allow categorisation, visiting each repository catalogued to ensure a high degree of quality and consistency in the information provided. OpenDOAR primarily aims to be an authoritative source of OA repositories.

Registry of Open Access Repositories (ROAR) is similar to OpenDOAR but managers input their own repositories. The primary aims of ROAR are to provide support for repository growth and to promote the development of open access by providing timely information about the growth and status of repositories throughout the world.

RoMEO is a registry service (developed and managed by University of Nottingham) specifying publisher copyright and archiving policies. RoMEO summarises publisher copyright rules about deposit in institutional repositories and shows which publishers comply with funding agencies conditions on open access.

Note: RoMEO is one of the repository infrastructure components supported in 'Wave 1' of RepositoryNet+.

Social Networking Extensions for EPrints (SNEEP) is a plug-in module deriving from a rapid development project (managed by University of London Computing Centre) to create extensions adding further key Web 2.0 features to EPrints. Specifically, SNEEP provides modular functionality for commenting, bookmarking, and using tags within EPrints repositories. More generally, SNEEP is designed to demonstrate how Web 2.0 technologies can be used in an institutional repository.