Oxford Journals offers faster and better access to metadata records with OAI-PMH functionality
27 November 2006Oxford Journals, a division of Oxford University Press, today announced that all abstracts and metadata for over 180 journals can now be obtained using OAI-PMH functionality.
The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) offers any third party, including aggregators and libraries, the opportunity to acquire metadata records within a standard format.The Oxford Journals OAI-PMH repository contains abstracts and metadata for all journal content, including the Oxford Journals digital archive, with records dating back to 1849. The repository is constantly updated with current issues, as well as articles published as Advanced Access, and provides a convenient location for harvesting metadata collections, or single article metadata.
“Providing OAI-PMH functionality offers third party aggregators and librarians a vastly improved way to extract metadata records from our content”, commented Pam Sutherland, Journals IT Director, Oxford Journals. She continued,
“Metadata can be harvested at any time, as frequently as required, and it’s now much quicker to access the data than via other mechanisms. The Oxford Journals repository is extremely flexible, and users can set their own parameters to obtain precise sets of metadata, sorting by journal, date, volume, or issue. A date-stamp has also been included within all records, even though this is an optional element of OAI-PMH, to allow harvesters to select all records from a specified date.”
The OAI-PMH functionality is now live on the Oxford Journals site and available for all third parties. The metadata is available for all to view, and harvester applications, which are required to extract records within the standard format, can be downloaded free of charge.
For further information on the Open Archives initiative, click here.
Further information on OAI-PMH metadata harvesting can be obtained via the Oxford Journals Website
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For further information please contact:
Mithu Mukherjee
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Oxford Journals
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Notes to editors:
The Oxford Journals OAI-PMH repository is provided and maintained by Highwire Press
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