OpenURL Work-around

While we are not yet OpenURL compliant, there is a work-around you can use for this purpose which should be reliable in the foreseeable future.

To initiate a simple title search from an OpenURL link resolver use: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister&type=boolean&rgn1= entire+record&searchfield=Title&q1=%TITLE%

For more complex searches, use a variety of: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/b/bib/bib-idx?c=oaister&type=boolean&rgn1= entire+record&rgn2=entire+record&rgn3=entire+record&searchfield=Title&q1= &op2=And&searchfield=Keyword&q2=&op3=And&searchfield=Keyword&q3= &op6=And&rgn6=norm&restype=all+types&sort=title&submit2=search

SRU Compliant

We are SRU compliant through our native metadata format, DLXS BibClass. This format is very similar to Simple Dublin Core. We use the following SRU mapping from BibClass to DC.

K	dc:title
L	dc:creator
M	dc:contributor
SU	dc:subject
AA	dc:description
F	dc:description
T	dc:publisher
YR	dc:date
X	dc:rights
URL	dc:identifier
FMT	dc:format
LANG	dc:language
TYPE	dc:type
H	dc:source

To access our client, use < http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/s/sru/sru >. The searchRetrieve operation should pass in the parameter collid=oaister. We currently only support level 0 keyword searching.

Yahoo! and Google

OAIster staff send our metadata to Yahoo! and Google on a monthly basis. Yahoo! uses the complete metadata records in their search index (http://search.yahoo.com/). Google uses the URLs included in the records to robot web pages for their search index.