The University of Michigan Library recently announced that records from their MBooks collection are available for Open Archives Initiative (OAI) harvesting. The MBooks collection consists of materials digitized by Google in partnership with the University of Michigan.
Only records for MBooks available in the public domain are exposed, (split into sets containing public domain items according to U.S. copyright law, and public domain items worldwide). There are currently over 100,000 records available for harvesting, with plans for 1 million records when the whole collection has been digitized by Google.
In conjunction, the open-source OAI toolkit has been released on SourceForge. This toolkit contains both harvester and data provider, both written in Perl.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/umoaitoolkit/
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