Which OAI harvester and which URL to use

[drjhf]

Is there either harm or benefit to registering a journal in both the SFU harvester and OAIster?

Also, if one is using name-based virtual hosting for a journal, is it better to list just the actual journal URL (http://scholarlyexchange.org/ojs/index.php/BIORES/ for the site URL and http://scholarlyexchange.org/ojs/index.php/BIORES/oai/ for the base URL for OAI archive - or the name-based virtual-hosted one, in this case http://www.bioresourcesjournal.com, without any folder names as they do not appear in the address line?

thanks

[asmecher]

Hi drjhf,

There's no harm in registering for multiple harvesters.

It's probably better to use the virtual-hosted journal for the site URL. http://www.bioresourcesjournal.com is the "definitive" url to your journal, and therefore the preferred method of reaching it via an outside service such as the harvester.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team

[DavidRad]

When trying to add my ojs2 url to my harvester2 archive I recieve this error:

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XML or text declaration not at start of entityXML or text declaration not at start of entity
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /usr/home/mhr/www/harvester2/classes/xml/XMLParser.inc.php:76) in /usr/home/mhr/www/harvester2/classes/template/TemplateManager.inc.php on line 127

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The url to my journal install is http://24.161.80.157/mhr/ojs2

Thanks for any direction,

Thanks

[asmecher]

Hi David,

Are you giving the harvester the correct OAI URL? It should be: http://24.161.80.157/mhr/ojs2/index.php/japa/oai

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Open Journal Systems Team
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[DavidRad]

Thanks