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The University of Michigan Library is pleased to announce that records from our MBooks collection are available for Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting. The MBooks collection consists of materials digitized by Google in partnership with the University of Michigan.

This link describes our OAI repository. For a more in-depth explanation of OAI including how to harvest our repository, see http://www.openarchives.org/

Only records for MBooks available in the public domain are exposed. We have split these into sets containing public domain items according to U.S. copyright law, and public domain items worldwide. There are currently over 100,000 records available for harvesting. We anticipate having 1 million records available when the entire U-M collection has been digitized by Google.

In conjunction, we have released our open-source OAI toolkit on SourceForge. This toolkit contains both harvester and data provider, both written in Perl.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/umoaitoolkit/