On 09/19/2009 03:05 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> I still think that the best way to provide open access to your records
> is to provide it to anyone, including for-pay aggregators.
I for one have no plans to bar OCLC from harvesting our records. But if I
don't fill out their form and give them all the permissions they want, and they
decide not to harvest us, that's their decision. (And one that seriously
undermines OAIster's value, IMO.)
For what it's worth, OCLC does OAI-PMH harvesting of multiple repositories
specific to electronic theses and dissertations
(<http://alcme.oclc.org/ndltd/servlet/OAIHandler?verb=ListSets>), makes the
data available to other sites, and even injects ETD records from WorldCat into
their own OAI set. They've been doing it for years and never got caught up in
making sites agree to any terms before being harvested.
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Thomas Dowling
tdowling_at_ohiolink.edu
Received on Mon Sep 21 2009 - 10:17:43 EDT