DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositorie

The “Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research” (DRIVER) project responds to the vision that any form of scientific-content resource, including scientific/technical reports, research articles, experimental or observational data, rich media and other digital objects should be freely accessible through simple Internet-based infrastructures.

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DRIVER: Networking European Scientific Repositories

Is there a similar initiative to network repositories in the United States? Worldwide? Can Google Scholar provide an option to search within worldwide repositories?