Open Archives Initiative Protocol For Metadata Harvesting - OAI Registries

OAI Registries

The OAI Protocol has become widely adopted by many digital libraries, institutional repositories, and digital archives. Although registration is not mandatory, it is encouraged.

There are several large registries of OAI-compliant repositories:

1. The Open Archives list of registered OAI repositories
2. The OAI registry at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. The Celestial OAI registry
4. Eprint’s Institutional Archives Registry
5. Openarchives.eu The European Guide to OAI-PMH compliant repositories in the world
6. ScientificCommons.org A worldwide service and registry