Dear Karen,<br><br>one of the biggest drawbacks, when you decide to exclude full-text from the submission, is that your full-text won't be indexed in the Lucene search indexes in DSpace.<br>As a consequence, the only information that will be used in the search, will be the metadata of your items.<br>
<br>On the other hand, if you really want to go this way, it is now by default possible in DSpace 1.5 to disable the hard requirement to include a full-text in the submission (so you can skip the file upload step). We often see that authors or institutions choose to take the approach, to provide a URL, rather than uploading the full text.<br>
<br>an example: <a href="https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/15035">https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/15035</a><br><br>In many cases, this is because they feel more secure (in a copyright-way) when linking to the website of the publisher, instead of uploading the full-text in the repository.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/3 Janssens Karen <<a href="mailto:Karen.Janssens@ua.ac.be">Karen.Janssens@ua.ac.be</a>>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Does anyone have experience with using DSpace only as a 'publication and<br>
distribution platform' providing the metadata and links to the<br>
full-textitems, while those full-textitems are stored not within the<br>
DSpace repository but on a different location. We are considering this<br>
approach at our institution to have more control on the storage of the<br>
full-texts. Would there be serious reasons to discourage this approach?<br>
An so yes, why?<br>
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Also if you have no personal experience but know of institutions doing<br>
somethin like this, I'd be very interested to have the reference.<br>
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Many thanks in advance!<br>
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Karen<br>
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Karen Janssens<br>
Universiteit Antwerpen<br>
Anet - Bibliotheek Stadscampus<br>
Prinsstraat 9<br>
B-2000 Antwerpen<br>
Belgium<br>
Tel +32 3 220.49.71<br>
Email <a href="mailto:karen.janssens@ua.ac.be" target="_blank">karen.janssens@ua.ac.be</a><br>
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