Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) is a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability. Data Providers are repositories that expose structured metadata via OAI-PMH. Service Providers then make OAI-PMH service requests to harvest that metadata. OAI-PMH is developed by the Open Archives Initiative.

Hindawi fully supports the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol 2.0. Metadata for all published articles is available via the OAI-PMH interface to interested Service Providers.

Examples of OAI-PMH Requests

1. To retrieve information about a repository

   http://www.hindawi.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?verb=Identify

2. To retrieve the set structure of Hindawi Publishing Corporation repository.

   http://www.hindawi.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?verb=ListSets

3. To retrieve the metadata formats available from Hindawi Publishing Corporation repository.

   http://www.hindawi.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?verb=ListMetadataFormats

4. To harvest records from a Hindawi Publishing Corporation repository.

   http://www.hindawi.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?
   verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

5. To retrieve an individual metadata record from a Hindawi Publishing Corporation repository

   http://www.hindawi.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?
   verb=GetRecord&identifier=oai:hindawi.com:10.1155/S1023621X04000247&metadataPrefix=oai_dc

6. To retrieve an abbreviated form of List Records, retrieving only headers rather than records for specific volume in journal

   http://www.hindawi.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?
   verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=asp:2007

7. To retrieve an abbreviated form of List Records, retrieving only headers rather than records in a specified date range

   http://www.hindawi.com/oai-pmh/oai.aspx?
   verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2007-01-01&until=2007-11-01