OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting)

OAI-PMH, or Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, is a standard used to share and collect metadata about resources, such as academic articles, from different digital repositories. It allows these repositories to expose their metadata in a uniform way, enabling services and researchers to easily access and aggregate information from various sources. Essentially, OAI-PMH acts like a bridge, facilitating the sharing of knowledge across different platforms and ensuring that users can find and explore a wide array of scholarly content efficiently.