OAI Page error?

[AndyP]

http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/index/oai leads to the xml page below. I guess the error means that this isn't working, any clues?

Thanks

Andy

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <OAI-PMH xmlns="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/OAI-PMH.xsd">
<responseDate>2008-05-03T11:34:50Z</responseDate>
<request>http://www.equinoxjournals.com/ojs/index.php/index/oai</request>
<error code="badVerb">Illegal OAI verb</error>
</OAI-PMH>

[mj]

Hi Andy,

The OAI interface is probably working fine. The way the OAI protocol works, is that it embeds verbs in the HTTP request to your journal. Just hitting the URL in a web browser doesn't include any verbs, hence the message you're seeing. You can learn more about the OAI protocol at: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

Regards,
MJ

[AndyP]

what's the easiest way to test if the harvester is working?

[mj]

Hi Andy,

If you log in as the harvester administrator, you should be able to check and update the status of the archives you're harvesting by going to "Administration > Manage Archives" and click "Manage" next to the archive you're interested in. Clicking "Update Metadata Index" should retrieve all the records from the OAI interface of your archive source (ie. journal).

MJ