TL;DR
This paper surveys eprint repositories within the Open Archives Initiative, discussing their role in scholarly communication and how metadata harvesting can enhance their utility.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive overview of OAI eprint repositories and explores potential improvements through metadata harvesting for scholarly communication.
Findings
Eprint repositories are a significant part of OAI data providers.
Metadata harvesting can improve the utility of eprint archives.
The paper discusses future applications of metadata harvesting in scholarly communication.
Abstract
The Open Archives Initiative (OAI) was created as a practical way to promote interoperability between eprint repositories. Although the scope of the OAI has been broadened, eprint repositories still represent a significant fraction of OAI data providers. In this article I present a brief survey of OAI eprint repositories, and of services using metadata harvested from eprint repositories using the OAI protocol for metadata harvesting (OAI-PMH). I then discuss several situations where metadata harvesting may be used to further improve the utility of eprint archives as a component of the scholarly communication infrastructure.
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