E-prints and the Open Archives Initiative

Author: Warner, Simeon

Source: Library Hi Tech, Volume 21, Number 2, 2003 , pp. 151-158(8)

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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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

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/07378830310479794

Publication date: 2003-06-01