OAI field in biblatex/biber
With the help of experts, here is one solution that satisfies oai requirements. The oai references require a repository and a number such as, for instance oai:hal.example.com:hal-0000001 that can be used to reconstruct the actual internet address of the document of interest, here : http://hal.example.com/hal-000001/
The eprint and eprinttype fields together with the following definition shall be used:
\def\oaitourl#1:#2{#1/#2}
\DeclareFieldFormat{eprint:oai}%
{oai:\href{http://\oaitourl#1}{\nolinkurl{#1}}}
\begin{document}
\cite{EX}
\end{document}
together with, in the .bib file :
@TechReport{EX,
author = {Name, First name},
title = {Report},
institution = {INH},
year = {2010},
eprint = {hal.example.com:hal-000000001},
eprinttype = {oai}}
The thing is that it would be even better with an oai field directly in the .bib file.
edit: This approach requires the use of the biblatex
package together with the biber
engine.
I didn't find any reference to OAI in the Feature Tracker of the biblatex page at sourceforge. You should consider to create a feature request.
biblatex has resources for custom field types. (p. 26 of texdoc biblatex
) It would mean modifying the bibliography style (since none of the standard types make use of, say verba
). So it is already possible to make use of oai fields, with a little work...