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Initially, the initiative has been involved in the development of a technological framework and interoperability Standards specifically for enhancing access to E-print archives, in order to increase the availability of Scholarly communication; OAI is, therefore, closely related to the Open Access movement. The developed technology and standards, though, are applicable in a much broader domain than scholarly publishing alone.

The OAI technical infrastructure, specified in the Open Archives Initiative Protocol For Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH), currently in version 2.0, defines a mechanism for data providers to expose their metadata. This Protocol mandates that individual archives map their metadata to the Dublin Core , a simple and common metadata set for this purpose.

Funding for the initiative comes from various organizations including the Joint Information Systems Committee .

PictureAustralia is an example of OAI-PMH in action. PictureAustralia harvests image data from Australian libraries, universities, museums and galleries. It then provides a single search system to access all the images.


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Breeding, Marshall. "The Emergence of the Open Archives Initiative." ''Information Today'' 19, no. 4 (2002): 46-47.

———. "Understanding the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting of the Open Archives Initiative." ''Computers in Libraries'' 22, no. 8 (2002): 24-29.

Castelli, Donatella. " Open Archive Solutions to Traditional Archive/Library Cooperation ." [PDF] ''LIBER Quarterly'' 13, no. 3/4 (2003): 290-298.

Cole, Timothy W. "Using OAI: Innovations in the Sharing of Information." ''Library Hi Tech'' 21, no. 2 (2003): 115-117.

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Crawford, Walt. "OpenURL Meets Open Access." ''American Libraries'' 35, no. 2 (2004): 52.

Foulonneau, Muriel, and David Dawson. '' Open Archives Initiative—Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: Practices of the Cultural Heritage Actors ''. [PDF] Bath, UK: Open Archives Forum, 2003. Expert Report 3.

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Harnad, Stevan . " The Self-Archiving Initiative ". ''Nature'' 410: 1024-1025 (2001)

Hunter, Philip, and Marieke Guy. "Metadata for Harvesting: The Open Archives Initiative, and How to Find Things on the Web." ''The Electronic Library'' 22, no. 2 (2004): 168-174.

Kiernan, Vincent. "'Open Archives' Project Promises Alternative to Costly Journals." ''The Chronicle of Higher Education'', 3 December 1999 , A43.

Lagoze, Carl. " The OAI and OAI-PMH: Where to Go from Here ?" [video] In ''CERN Workshop Series on Innovations in Scholarly Communication: Implementing the Benefits of OAI (OAI3), 12- 14 February 2004 at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland''. Geneva: CERN, 2004.

Lagoze, Carl, and Herbert Van de Sompel. "The Making of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting." ''Library Hi Tech'' 21, no. 2 (2003): 118-128.

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———. " Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part II: Social Sciences and Humanities ." [PDF] ''Library Hi Tech News'' 20, no. 10 (2003): 24-31.

———. " Open Archives Initiative Service Providers. Part III: General ." [PDF] ''Library Hi Tech News'' 21, no. 1 (2004): 38-46.

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Powell, Andy. " A Brief Overview of the OAI Protocol and Its Potential Impact ." [audio] In ''Open Access to Scientific and Technical Information: State of the Art and Future Trends, Paris, 23- 24 January 2003 , Carré des Sciences, Ministère de la Recherche''. Nancy, France: INIST-CNRS, 2003.

———. "A Brief Overview of the OAI Protocol and It's Potential Impact." ''Information Services & Use'' 23, no. 2-3 (2003): 103-104.

Rusch-Feja, Diann. " The Open Archives Initiative and the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting: Rapidly Forming a New Tier in the Scholarly Communication Infrastructure ." ''Learned Publishing'' 15, no. 3 (2002): 179-186.

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Shearer, Kathleen. '' The Open Archives Initiative: Developing an Interoperability Framework for Scholarly Publishing ''. [PDF] Ottawa: Canadian Association of Research Libraries, 2002. CARL/ABRC Backgrounder Series No. 5.

Sponsler, E., and E. F. Van de Velde. '' Eprints.org Software: A Review ''. SPARC E-News, August-September (2001)

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Suleman, Hussein, and Edward Fox. " The Open Archives Initiative: Realizing Simple and Effective Digital Library Interoperability ." [PDF] ''Journal of Library Administration'' 35, no. 1/2 (2001): 125-145.

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Tennant, Roy. " The Expanding World of OAI ." ''Library Journal'', 15 February 2004 , 32.

———. " Metadata's Bitter Harvest ." ''Library Journal'', July 2004, 32.

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Van de Sompel, Herbert. " Introductory Talk and Presentation of the OAI-PMH 2.0 ." [video] In ''2nd Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI): Gaining Independence with E-Prints Archives and OAI, CERN, 17- 19 October 2002 , Geneva, Switzerland''. Geneva: CERN, 2002. http://agenda.cern.ch/askArchive.php?base=agenda&categ=a02333&id=a02333s7t1/video

Van de Sompel, Herbert, and Carl Lagoze. " The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative ." ''D-Lib Magazine'' 6, no. 2 (2000).

———. " Notes from the Interoperability Front: A Progress Report on the Open Archives Initiative ." [PDF] In ''Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy, September 16 -18, 2002: Proceedings'', Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2458, 144-157. Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2002.

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Warner, Simeon. " E-Prints and the Open Archives Initiative ." ''Library Hi Tech'' 21, no. 2 (2003): 151-158.

———. " Exposing and Harvesting Metadata Using the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol: A Tutorial ." ''High Energy Physics Libraries Webzine'', no. 4 (2001).

———. " Report on the 'OAI Metadata Harvesting Workshop' at JCDL 2003 ." ''D-Lib Magazine'' 9, no. 7/8 (2003).