Oxford 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.”...
Comment. This is smart and all journals (OA and TA) should do it. (I've been recommending it since 2004.) Inderscience seems to have been the first non-OA publisher to test its potential as a more effective and less expensive alternative to traditional marketing. For details, see this Inderscience case study from 2003.
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Peter Suber at 11/30/2006 02:54:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
