There are far too many papers about or relating to OAI to maintain a complete list. Instead we list a few key papers:

2004

• Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson, Carl Lagoze, Simeon Warner. 2004. Resource Harvesting within the OAI-PMH Framework. D-Lib Magazine, December 2004. http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december04/vandesompel/12vandesompel.html.

2002

• Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze. 2002. Notes from the Interoperability Front: A Progress Report on the Open Archives Initiative. 6th European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, September 2002, Rome. [draft at http://www.openarchives.org/documents/ecdl2002-oai.pdf]
   

2001

• Steven Bird and Gary Simons. 2001. The OLAC Metadata Set and Controlled Vocabularies. Proceedings of the ACL/EACL Workshop on Sharing Tools and Resources for Research and Education, Toulouse, July 2001, Association for Computational Linguistics. [http://arXiv.org/abs/cs/0105030]
   
• Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van de Sompel. 2001. The Open Archives Initiative: Building a low-barrier interoperability framework . Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digtial Libraries, Roanoke VA, June 24-28, 2001, pp. 54-62. [draft at http://www.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/papers/oai-jcdl.pdf]
   
• Clifford Lynch. 2001. Metadata Harvesting and the Open Archives Initiative . ARL Monthly Report 217, August 2001, [http://www.arl.org/newsltr/217/mhp.html].
   
• Hussein Suleman. 2001. Enforcing Interoperability with the Open Archives Initiative Repository Explorer. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digtial Libraries, Roanoke VA, June 24-28, 2001, pp. 63-64. [draft at http://www.dlib.vt.edu/projects/OAI/reports/jcdl_2001_paper_repository_explorer.pdf]
   
• Simeon Warner. 2001. Exposing and Harvesting Metadata Using the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol: A Tutorial. HEP Libraries Webzine Issue 4 / June 2001. [http://library.cern.ch/HEPLW/4/papers/3/]
   

2000

• Herbert Van de Sompel and Carl Lagoze. 2000. The Santa Fe Convention of the Open Archives Initiative. D-Lib Magazine volume 6 number 2. [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-oai/02vandesompel-oai.html]
   
• Herbert Van de Sompel, Thomas Krichel, Michael L. Nelson, Patrick Hochstenbach, Victor M. Lyapunov, Kurt Maly, Mohammad Zubair, Mohamed Kholief, Xiaoming Liu and Heath O'Connell. 2000. The UPS Prototype: An Experimental End-User Service across E-Print Archives. D-Lib Magazine volume 6 number 2. [http://www.dlib.org/dlib/february00/vandesompel-ups/02vandesompel-ups.html]