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E-prints and the Open Archives Initiative

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Title:

E-prints and the Open Archives Initiative

Author(s):

Simeon Warner

Journal:

Library Hi Tech

Year:

2003

Volume:

21

Issue:

2

Page:

151 - 158


ISSN:

0737-8831


DOI:

10.1108/07378830310479794

Publisher:

MCB UP Ltd

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Abstract:

The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was created as a practical way to promote interoperability between e-print repositories. Although the scope of the OAI has been broadened, e-print repositories still represent a significant fraction of OAI data providers. This article presents a brief survey of OAI e-print repositories, and of services using metadata harvested from e-print repositories using the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). It then discusses several situations where metadata harvesting may be used to further improve the utility of e-print archives as a component of the scholarly communication infrastructure.

Keywords:

Archiving, Data collection, Digital documents


Article Type:

General review


Article URL:

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/07378830310479794

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