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OAI-PMH @ NPG
Good news from the Nature Publishing Group, they now provide OAI-PMH access to their publications.
Nature.com now has an OAI-PMH interface. This service implements the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting from the Open Archives Initiative. This means that the Nature.com platform can now be queried by item, by title or by date range and that structured data records will be returned. All articles from over 150 titles can be accessed and dating back to 1869 for Nature magazine.
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Nature Now Has Xmp
Nature now includes XMP semantic data in the PDF version of their articles.We now have a complete bibliographic record (including DOI) embedded in the PDF using structured markup. And, moreover, we also have a solid bedrock for adding in any additional...
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Rss For Tocs
RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers by Lisa Rogers provides some advise based on experience.Publishers are using various versions of feeds such as RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, RSS 0.91 and...
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Oai
Implementation Guidelines for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Conveying rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework has reached a beta release.The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)...
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Rss
Here is a publisher who gets it.Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is pleased to announce the completion of the current phase of its RSS newsfeed collection which delivers tables of content for its journals and other timely information to scientists' desktops....
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Oai
The NASA Technical Reports Server now uses the OAI-PMH. This is good news, moving towards standards. The bad news is they no longer provide access to the NASA Astrophysical Data Service. Here at the Lunar and Planetary Institute, these are important tools...
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