Completely clueless

[Kathy Stroud]

We are a research journal that has moved to one access at molmed.org. Ihave no idea how to comply with the OAI-ORE standard.

We publish research articles as PDFs and allow downloading. That's it! Do I need to do more?

[Ari Davidow]

For what you describe, you do not need OAI-ORE or anything else beyond a hosted environment where you can upload your PDFs and your readers can download them.

To the extent that you want data (your articles) to be found and used, you can do much more, but that can wait until you have gotten things set up so that you can provide your journal in your chosen format.

Not to belabor the obvious, but how did you get here? Why are you posting to this group? What was your expectation from OAI-ORE?

Ari Davidow

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Kathy Stroud <kath...@gmail.com> wrote:

We are a research journal that has moved to one access at molmed.org. Ihave no idea how to comply with the OAI-ORE standard.

We publish research articles as PDFs and allow downloading. That's it! Do I need to do more?

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[Kathy Stroud]

Our site has been up for several years but we've become open access as of this year. Our managing editor was reading the open access requirements which led to our realization hat we didn't understand what OAI-RE was.

We want to comply on all levels so I hunted you down and found this group.

This paragraph inspired my search:

"In the Machine Readability section, what do you mean by "community standard API"?
To achieve machine readability, a computer program must be able to find papers and understand how to obtain them in the right format. This requires that the information be made available via a standardized service with which a computer program can interact. Such a standard service is an "Application Programming Interface" or API. Because this is an emerging area we did not want to specify a single current standard, but one example of such an API would be a service providing an interface that conforms to the OAI-ORE standard."

What else could we be doing? Our website is www.molmed.org

Thanks for your prompt response!