Eagle-i is a free web-based application that makes it easy to discover resources available at participating universities helping investigators accelerate their research and do more with less; more than 50,000 resources are listed and more are added every week. Institutions are welcome to adopt free software and participate in the network. The data in the system is open access; anyone regardless of affiliation is welcome to sign up for an account or to download the Linked Open Data directly. eagle-i is a distributed platform for creating and sharing semantically rich data. It is built around semantic web technologies and follows linked open data principles. In its current incarnation and operational deployment, eagle-i focuses on biomedical research resources.