Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Use of DataHarman (Türkiye Akademik Arşivi – Turkey Academic Archive) is a national metadata aggregation service developed by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey's National Academic Network and Information Center). It provides centralized, standards-compliant access to the open-access content of Turkish academic institutional repositories and journals from a single portal.
Harman was developed to address the need for a unified discovery point for Turkey's distributed landscape of university institutional repositories and open-access journals. It works using the OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) protocol to aggregate metadata from participating data providers. The platform has undergone significant renewal in recent years, with TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM releasing a modernized infrastructure and interface in late 2025.
Harman acts as a bridge between national open access archives and journals (data providers) and search engine services (service providers), enabling standardized metadata exchange at the international level. The service also supports data quality improvement by analyzing archive records and sending standardized evaluation reports to member institutions. A dynamic application form enables new institutional archives to join the Harman network through a transparent and efficient onboarding process.
TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM, established in 1996, operates the National Academic Network, the DergiPark journal hosting platform, the TR Index, and the Aperta Open Archive for TÜBİTAK-funded research. Harman is one of several key open science services provided to the Turkish research ecosystem.
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