[OAI-implementers] points to ponder

[Tim Brody]

Andy Powell wrote:

 > [ ... ]

> I'm not quite clear Where the original question was coming from, but, for
> example, I think it would be much more questionable to invent a record
> format called 'fullText' and to then use the protocol to exchange
> 'resources' (as opposed to 'records').  At that point, one would be using
> the 'protocol for metadata harvesting' to do something other than
> 'harvesting metadata'.

BMC expose their free-access articles via a proprietory XML format 
"bmc_article":
http://celestial.eprints.org/cgi-bin/oaia2/biomedcentral.com?verb=GetRecord;metadataPrefix=bmc_article;identifier=oai:biomedcentral.com:ar407

All the best,
Tim.