Dear Friends, Open Archives Initiative The Open Archives Initiative develops and promotes interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content. OAI has its roots in the open access and institutional repository movements. Continued support of this work remains a cornerstone of the Open Archives program. Over time, however, the work of OAI has expanded to promote broad access to digital resources for eScholarship, eLearning, and eScience. Current OAI Projects: - Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH)http://www.openarchives.org/pmh - OAI-PMH Version 2 Specificationhttp://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html - OAI-PMH Implementation Guidelineshttp://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines.htm - OAI-PMH Tools http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/tools - Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) http://www.openarchives.org/ore - OAI-ORE Specifications and User Guideshttp://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/toc.html - OAI_ORE Press Releasehttp://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/ORE-Announcement.html - OAI-ORE Production Release Press Releasehttp://www.openarchives.org/ore/documents/ore-production-press-release.pdf For more OAI log on to http://www.openarchives.org/ http://www.openarchives.org/Thanking You, Dinesh -- Dr. Dinesh K. S. MLISc., Ph.D. Selection Grade Librarian, Nagarjuna College of Engineering & Technology, Devanahalli, Bengaluru - 562 110. Ph: +91-9845102382, Email: dinesh.ncet@gmail.com www.nagarjunaknowledgecentre.webs.com www.dineshks.webs.com, -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.