Metadata for Libraries and Aggregators

Metadata feeds

OAPEN enables libraries and aggregators to use the metadata of all available titles in the OAPEN Library. The metadata is available in the following formats:

• ONIX (3.0) – XML
• MARC – MAchine-Readable Cataloging file
• MARCXML – based on MARC 21 XML Schema
• CSV – comma delimited text file
• RIS – Research Information Systems

OAI PMH harvesting

The base URL for OAI-PMH harvesting is http://library.oapen.org/oai/

(Example: http://library.oapen.org/oai/request?verb=ListMetadataFormats)

RSS and Atom feeds

• RSS 1.0
• RSS 2.0
• Atom

All metadata feeds are available under a CC0 1.0 license.