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Oceania Digital Library [1]
The University of Auckland, the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and the University of California, San Diego have collaborated to create a single point of access for researchers seeking information about the cultures and history of Oceania (Australasia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia).

Pacific Rim Library (PRL – pronounced “pearl”) [2]
The OAI Pilot Project was launched in 2005 to harvest metadata about digital collections created by PRDLA member institutions. PRL, [3] hosted by Hong Kong University, contains the metadata only (not complete digital objects) of at least one digital collection from 24 PRDLA member institutions.

PRDLA Interlibrary Loan Pilot Project [4]
At the 2005 PRDLA meeting in Hawaii, it was decided that PRDLA would attempt an interlibrary loan pilot project as a means of sharing resources among members of the alliance. The project, headed by Director Xue Fangyu of Tsinghua University, was a one-year experiment with no-fee, non-returnable interlibrary loans between PRDLA member institutions on opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean. The pilot concluded in 2007.

Chinese Digital Archive, 1966-1976 [5]
A project at Australia National University was established to develop an electronic gateway to a number of unique and in some cases rare and fragile collections in both print and microfilm relating to the Chinese Cultural Revolution period (1966 to 1976). This web-based database not only makes this material accessible globally to the academic community but preserves the contents of some very fragile and rare material.

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