You use the GetRecord verb to get back an individual record.

Let’s see an example request. To start we need to go to the “base” URL:

http://[ServerUrl]/oai/data/oai2_0

Now we specify the verb — which in this case is GetRecord. So add ?verb=GetRecord to the end of the previous URL to get this:

http://[ServerUrl]/oai/data/oai2_0?verb=GetRecord

Now we’ll specify an identifier. The format for the identifier in Spydus is:

oai:[Server_Institution]:brn/[Record_BRN]

For example:

oai:VBAY:brn/1

So add this identifier to the end of the previous URL to get this:

http://[ServerUrl]/oai/data/oai2_0?verb=GetRecord&identifier= oai:VBAY:brn/1

Here’s an example response. There is just one format — MARC21slim.xsd.