Open Archives Initiative

Published by Peter Linde on May 15, 2007 in OAI and Research. 0 Comments
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Authors of scientific documents should store their reviewed articles in open archives, with open access for everyone. This original idea was formalized at the end of the 1990s through the organization Open Archives Initiative (OAI).

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Authors of scientific documents should store their reviewed articles in open archives, with open access for everyone. This original idea was formalized at the end of the 1990s through the organization Open Archives Initiative (OAI). The basic idea was to decrease the dependence on commercial publishers who were really only needed to carry out quality control and certification by reviewing and editing, which in turn could be paid by the author’s institution/organization with a smaller sum from the annual savings they would make by canceling subscriptions for scientific journals. Since then the idea has spread around the world, and today about 300 scientific archives exist, with millions of documents which are based on the OAI principles of free access.

Common standards

But self-archiving is not enough. In order to disseminate the information and make texts searchable and compatible with other systems there must be common standards. For this reason, OAI has developed and marketed interoperability standards, which enable effective dissemination of electronic documents.

OAI-PMH

OAI has its roots in the vision that all research should be publicly accessible, and the organizations’ main contribution to this is the development of The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The protocol forms the base for joint searches of information which contains meta data. There are two types of participants in the protocol: Data providers who administrate digital archives with data that supports OAI-PMH and service providers who use meta data harvested through OAI-PMH in different kinds of meta search tools.

Software

Another important function that OAI has supported is the development of free software which supports the building of open digital archives. E-print is one such software which can be downloaded for free and be locally adapted to build institutional archives. Dspace is another such tool which has been developed at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, inspired by E-print and other similar software.

Users

In OAI there is a big community of users within which you share information of both technical and general nature. The Internet world is dynamic. Software, protocols and standards come and go. Because of this a non-profit organization built by users like the OAI is of great importance in order to keep together the global work that the construction of free scientific resources on the Internet means.

Publisher copyright policies and self-archiving

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Peter Linde
2005-05-20