[Dspace-general] Registering publication without associated items.

[MacKenzie Smith]

Hi Thomas,

There is a kludgy way to do this manually (you upload a file as required by 
the submssion process and
then delete it again before the last step) or you can do it with the batch 
loader, but it would be good to
consider carefully why you want to do this and if there's a better way...

If your goal is just to keep some items from being accessible by the public 
then you can go ahead and
deposit them and just set the access permissions for them accordingly -- 
you don't have to keep them
out of the system entirely! That way your collection can stay intact in one 
place, which will be better
for their long-term management and preservation.

Best wishes,

MacKenzie

At 04:01 PM 11/26/2004 +0100, Thomas Eliasson wrote:
>Hi all!
>
>We're evaluating DSpace and we'd like to be able to register a few 
>publications that should not be available in fulltext in the system.
>
>The reason is that we'd prefer not to have to set up a second system just 
>to keep track of publications when there are only a few that should not be 
>stored in fulltext.
>
>Is it possible to configure DSpace to accept only metadata without a file 
>associated? I've searched and searched but found no information on the subject.
>
>Thanks for your help!
>/Thomas
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MacKenzie Smith
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