Metadata and full-text XML harvesting

Interested parties aiming to access the metadata and full-text XML files of the articles published in Copernicus’ journals are invited to use our OAI-PMH interface. The OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting) is a low-barrier mechanism for repository interoperability used to harvest (or collect) the metadata descriptions and in our case also the full-text articles.

Copernicus Publications fully supports the OAI Metadata Harvesting Protocol 2.0. Metadata for all published articles is available in the Dublin Core format (oai-dc). In addition, we provide full-text XML using the NLM format (pmc). The latter is available for all articles published after November 2014.

Examples of OAI-PMH requests

To retrieve information about the repository: https://oai-pmh.copernicus.org/oai.php?verb=Identify
To retrieve the set structure: https://oai-pmh.copernicus.org/oai.php?verb=ListSets
To retrieve the available metadata and full-text formats: https://oai-pmh.copernicus.org/oai.php?verb=ListMetadataFormats
To retrieve records: https://oai-pmh.copernicus.org/oai.php?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
To retrieve an individual metadata record (e.g. aab28576): https://oai-pmh.copernicus.org/oai.php?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&identifier=oai:publications.copernicus.org:aab28576 for oai-dc or https://oai-pmh.copernicus.org/oai.php?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=pmc&identifier=oai:publications.copernicus.org:aab28576 for pmc