The Rice University’s Digital Scholarship Archive (scholarship.rice.edu) supports open harvesting of repository data. You can view metadata via OAI using the Open Archives Initiative - Repository Explorer tool or by entering a specific query directly into your web browser’s url address window. Some common queries are provided below.
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OAI baseURL : https://scholarship.rice.edu/oai
OAI-PMH request command can be run for collection level data but not community level
If you prefer METS, just change "&metadataPrefix=oai_dc" to "&metadataPrefix=mets"
Identify
Identifies the OAI provider:
https://scholarship.rice.edu/oai/request?verb=Identify
List sets
Lists all the collections available from scholarship.rice.edu server:
https://scholarship.rice.edu/oai/request?verb=ListSets
List metadata formats
Lists all the metadata formats. The format "oai_dc" is required of all OAI providers.
https://scholarship.rice.edu/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats
List identifiers
Gives the header information only for all records:
https://scholarship.rice.edu/oai/request?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
List records
List the records from one collection (change the set name at the end to get another set):
http://scholarship.rice.edu/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=col_1911_13110
For the next 100 records (change the number at the end to get additional sets of records in 100 count groups): -- NOT WORKING?
http://scholarship.rice.edu/oai/request?verb=ListRecords&resumptionToken=0001-01-01T00:00:00Z/9999-12-31T23:59:59Z/hdl_1911_13110/oai_dc/100
Get record
Get a particular record's metadata (e.g., item #35964):
To retrieve List Records within a specified date range
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Need more information about OAI? See http://www.openarchives.org, particularly http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/openarchivesprotocol.htm#ProtocolMessages for information about queries.