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TROVE is a discovery tool providing ease-of-use functionality to find material in various formats published or held in Australia and elsewhere
New national Australian Discovery Service, providing access to printed, electronic, pictorial, newspaper, research, map, music & archival material.
Trove was designed to:
provide a single point of access to the resources of the deep web
facilitate access to a significantly greater range of resources from major sources, including selected digitised material freely available online
support searching of, and access to, full-text content
enhance ease of discovery by providing improved relevance ranking, refinement by facets, FRBR-like grouping of related items (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and exploitation of thesauri
engage with communities and individuals through annotation services
ensure that relevant information is not missed in a search by reducing the need to search material-specific discovery services separately
provide a platform for niche services to query a vast resource of Australian metadata and adapt if for their own needs.
You can find information about resources collected by Australia's memory institutions, such as:
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