Features 

It is a strong growing community that supports communication amongst users 

Has an extensive collaboration programme 

Syndicates its material to many other major repositories which must help with the creation of content 

They have an affiliation scheme with all the main VLE vendors; 

Able to do federated searches across other repositories including EdNA Online   Education Network 

Australia and ARIADNE Foundation for the European Knowledge Pool; 

Peer reviews and internal recommendations i.e. 'Editors Choice' is easy and comprehensive; 

Ability to create your own personnel collection of resources 

Doesn't store actual learning objects; 

Doesn't encourage re use; 

editing tool (unable to find information at time of writing) 

Supports IEEE LOM for metadata 

Contributors Award Scheme 

 OAI PMH 

version control (unable to find information at time of writing) 

Materials classified by subject 

Metadata completed by contributors and peer review process 

 Open 

access 

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