Johns Hopkins University

Project MUSE OAI-PMH Repository

Project MUSE, operated by Johns Hopkins University Press, exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint that answers Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets and ListRecords with no authentication at all — 897,938 records across 971 sets in oai_dc, earliest datestamp 2016-08-31. It is the only fully open machine-readable surface Johns Hopkins operates, and the strongest single piece of education-regime domain standard evidence in this profile.

GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation
https://muse.jhu.edu/oai?verb=Identify

Other Resources

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x-conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/johns-hopkins-university/refs/heads/main/conformance/johns-hopkins-university-education-standards-conformance.yml
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x-example
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/johns-hopkins-university/refs/heads/main/conformance/johns-hopkins-university-project-muse-oai-identify.xml
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x-example
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/johns-hopkins-university/refs/heads/main/conformance/johns-hopkins-university-project-muse-oai-metadataformats.xml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: johns-hopkins-university:project-muse-oai
name: Project MUSE OAI-PMH Repository
description: Project MUSE, operated by Johns Hopkins University Press, exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting
  endpoint that answers Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets and ListRecords with no authentication
  at all — 897,938 records across 971 sets in oai_dc, earliest datestamp 2016-08-31. It is the only fully
  open machine-readable surface Johns Hopkins operates, and the strongest single piece of education-regime
  domain standard evidence in this profile.
humanURL: https://about.muse.jhu.edu/
baseURL: https://muse.jhu.edu/oai
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: muse.jhu.edu is under the institution's own registrable domain jhu.edu; the Identify
  response names the repository Project MUSE with adminEmail musetech@jh.edu. Project MUSE is a division
  of Johns Hopkins University Press.
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Scholarly Publishing
- Metadata Harvesting
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://muse.jhu.edu/oai?verb=Identify
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/johns-hopkins-university-education-standards-conformance.yml
- type: x-example
  url: conformance/johns-hopkins-university-project-muse-oai-identify.xml
- type: x-example
  url: conformance/johns-hopkins-university-project-muse-oai-metadataformats.xml