MBLWHOI Library

The Woods Hole Open Access Server, WHOAS, is an institutional repository that captures, stores, preserves, and redistributes the intellectual output of the Woods Hole scientific community in digital form.  WHOAS is managed by the MBLWHOI Library as a service to the Woods Hole scientific community. Go to WHOAS

The nature of the content includes a variety of objects (i.e., articles, book chapters, data sets, maps, presentations, and technical reports) in a variety of digital formats (i.e., text, pdfs, images, and audio files.)  Once ingested into WHOAS, the content remains preserved, even when the contributor departs Woods Hole.  The responsibility for migrating content as format types evolve or become obsolete is the Library’s.

Content in WHOAS is licensed to the Library for distribution* to the world community as part of the Open Archives Initiative.  To grant the license to the Library, the contributor must have distribution rights within Copyright Law.  Learn about managing copyright.

WHOAS is organized by institution (Communities) and the research departments/centers within the institution (Collections).  Authorized users contribute content to WHOAS with easy-to-use web forms that describe the content and its format type.  Visitors to WHOAS can search the content of one collection, or may select to search across the entire content of the archive.

The software platform of WHOAS is DSpace, an open source system developed jointly by MIT Libraries and Hewlett-Packard (HP).  Learn more about DSpace.

For more information, please contact the WHOAS Project Manager: whoas [at] whoi [dot] edu (subject: About%20WHOAS)

*upon request, contributors to WHOAS may embargo access to their content for a limited period of time.