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CiteSeer^x is compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, which is a standard proposed by The Open Archive Initiative in order to facilitate content dissemination. For data not mentioned here, please contact us through feedback.

To browse or download records programmatically from CiteSeer^x OAI collection please use the harvest url:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/oai2

The archive may also be browsed from an interface via an OAI Repository Explorer, either by using the CiteSeer^x archive identifier or by directly entering the harvest url.

Here is a list of toolkits that can be used for OAI metadata harvesting.

• OAI-Harvester - perl
• OAIHarvester2 - Java
• .NET OAI Harvester - .NET (dll)
• UIUC OAI - UIUC OAI Metadata Harvesting Project.