diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index b4e6a4ee296925652e59459ee81857028467ee4f..eb5e8af8a0c85cacaf36a01c1e46f0644dd0b666 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
         "symfony/yaml": "3.2.7",
         "swagger-api/swagger-ui": "2.2.10",
         "vufind-org/vufindcode": "1.0.3",
-        "vufind-org/vufindharvest": "2.2.0",
+        "vufind-org/vufindharvest": "2.3.0",
         "vufind-org/vufindhttp": "2.1.1",
         "yajra/laravel-pdo-via-oci8": "1.3.1",
         "zendframework/zend-cache": "2.7.2",
diff --git a/harvest/oai.ini b/harvest/oai.ini
index 54f494b1800d515d6b4cdf5058080ba248f83f20..7fc22feb9d6caef45b0ff5b3123db8588bea8b08 100644
--- a/harvest/oai.ini
+++ b/harvest/oai.ini
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 ; sslcafile = "/etc/pki/tls/cert.pem" ; e.g. for CentOS systems
 ; sslverifypeer = true
 ; sanitize = true
+; sanitizeRegex[] = "/[^\x{0009}\x{000a}\x{000d}\x{0020}-\x{D7FF}\x{E000}-\x{FFFD}]+/u"
 ; badXMLLog = bad.log
 ; httpUser = myUsername
 ; httpPass = myPassword
@@ -60,6 +61,11 @@
 ; attributes to this tag, e.g., <collection attr="value"> will correctly
 ; wrap the records in <collection attr="value"></collection> tags.
 ;
+; globalSearch[] and globalReplace[] may be used to manipulate the raw XML metadata
+; documents with regular expressions. This should be used with caution but can be
+; helpful when compensating for server-side encoding/markup errors. You may use
+; multiple pairs of search and replace settings to perform multiple manipulations.
+;
 ; idPrefix is the OAI-specific prefix attached to ID values.  If you provide the
 ; value here, it will be automatically stripped for you when generating filenames,
 ; injecting IDs and tracking deleted records.  If you omit the setting, full
@@ -120,6 +126,10 @@
 ; sanitize may be set to true to strip illegal characters from XML responses; it
 ; defaults to false, assuming that the OAI-PMH server you are harvesting from will
 ; provide you with valid data.
+; 
+; sanitizeRegex may be set to an array of regex strings used to sanitize XML retrieved
+; from an OAI-PMH source. Any text sequences matching these expressions will be 
+; replaced with blank spaces.
 ;
 ; badXMLLog may be set to a filename (which will be created within your harvest
 ; directory) to contain copies of bad XML that was fixed when the sanitize setting
@@ -140,4 +150,8 @@
 ;idSearch[] = "/\//"
 ;idReplace[] = "-"
 ;injectId = "identifier"
-;injectDate = "datestamp"
\ No newline at end of file
+;injectDate = "datestamp"
+;
+; Further examples for harvesting OAI-PMH sources available to the general
+; public may be found on this wiki page:
+; https://vufind.org/wiki/indexing:open_data_sources