[OAI-general] Announcement: BioMed Central OAI version 2.0 service now availabl e

Matthew Cockerill matt@biomedcentral.com
Tue, 4 Mar 2003 14:28:05 -0000


BioMed Central has recently added support for version 2.0 of the OAI
metadata harvesting protocol.

Base URL:            http://www.biomedcentral.com/oai/2.0/
Further information: http://www.biomedcentral.com/info/libraries/oai

New features for version 2.0:

* Coverage has been extended to *all* BioMed Central journals
* Dublin core XML is available for all articles
* Fulltext XML is available for research articles
* Research articles and non-research articles are available as 'sets'

We recommend that all users of BioMed Central's OAI service upgrade to
version 2.0 if possible. 

Please send bug reports and/or suggestions to: oai@biomedcentral.com

Best regards,

Matt
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Matthew Cockerill Ph.D.
Technical Director
BioMed Central Limited (http://www.biomedcentral.com)
34-42, Cleveland Street
London W1T 4LB

Tel. +44 20 7631 9127
Fax. +44 20 7580 1938
Email. matt@biomedcentral.com

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