Pennsylvania State University

ETDA OAI-PMH Provider

An open OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint over Penn State's Electronic Theses and Dissertations Archive, served by the Libraries' own etda_explore application on a psu.edu host. Identify reports repositoryName Penn_State_University, adminEmail askalibrarian@psu.edu and an earliest datestamp of 1999-04-07; oai_dc is the supported metadata format and the repository declares no set hierarchy. No credential, no registration — the one Penn State surface an outside machine can harvest today without asking anyone.

Documentation GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation

https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/

Other Resources

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x-examples

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/examples/pennsylvania-state-university-etda-oai-identify-example.xml

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GitHub

https://github.com/psu-libraries/etda_explore

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Conformance

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pennsylvania-state-university/refs/heads/main/conformance/pennsylvania-state-university-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: pennsylvania-state-university:etda-oai-pmh
name: ETDA OAI-PMH Provider
x-operator: institution
description: An open OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint over Penn State's Electronic Theses and Dissertations
  Archive, served by the Libraries' own etda_explore application on a psu.edu host. Identify reports repositoryName
  Penn_State_University, adminEmail askalibrarian@psu.edu and an earliest datestamp of 1999-04-07; oai_dc
  is the supported metadata format and the repository declares no set hierarchy. No credential, no registration
  — the one Penn State surface an outside machine can harvest today without asking anyone.
humanURL: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/
baseURL: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/oai
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Theses
- Research
- Library
- Open Access
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://etda.libraries.psu.edu/
- type: x-examples
  url: examples/pennsylvania-state-university-etda-oai-identify-example.xml
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/psu-libraries/etda_explore
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/pennsylvania-state-university-conformance.yml