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Template for a service provider: Instructions for use

1. Extract template part of this HTML page - the part between the horizontal rules - and save it as a separate HTML page.
2. Remove the italicized text from the righthand column of the table and fill out the appropriate information instead.
3. Install the resulting page on your web server.
4. Post a message on the OAI-PMH Google Group with the URL of the completed template and a request to be included in the list of OAI-PMH service providers.
5. The Open Archives initiative will list the URL of your completed service provider template at http://www.openarchives.org/service/listproviders.html

Open Archives Initiative: Information about this service provider

Data providers from which this service harvests

List data providers from which your service harvests or the policies by which they are selected. If appropriate include both the repositoryName and baseURL (cf. Identify protocol request) for data providers harvested from.

Supporting information

• The Open Archives Initiative web site (http://www.openarchives.org).
• The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH, http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.htm).
• For questions see the OAI-PMH discussion group (and oai-implementers archive for messages before July 2012).
• Registries: registered OAI-PMH data providers; and registered OAI-PMH service providers.