Awasthi, ShipraJaiswal, Babita2010-05-142010-05-142008-11-06978-81-902079-7-3http://hdl.handle.net/1944/1130The goal of the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting is to supply and promote an application-independent interoperability framework that can be used by a variety of communities who are engaged in publishing content on the Web. This paper discusses about OAI and a protocols which harvests metadata i.e. OAI-PMH.enOpen Access InitiativeMetadata HarvestingArticle