[Dspace-general] Publisher's requirements for links from published articles

[Stevan Harnad]

On 22-Apr-08, at 10:12 AM, dspace-general-request at mit.edu wrote:

> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 14:24:29 -0700
> From: "Jeremy C. Shellhase" <jcs -- lib-mail.humboldt.edu>
>
> We're working to include more of our faculty's published works in  
> our instance of dspace, Humboldt Digital Scholar, and wanted to pose  
> a couple questions about "best practices" in complying with some of  
> the RoMEO green publishers requirements, before we got too far along  
> in the work.


SHERPA RoMEO "Green" is not quite the right category, because it means  
"BOTH postprint-Green AND preprint-Green" whereas what you should be  
covering is postprint-Green, whether or not the publisher also happens  
to be preprint-Green, and you should also look carefully at the  
preprint Greens, because many of them mean "postprint" (author's final  
refereed draft) even though they say "preprint" (unrefereed draft)  
wrongly thinking that "postprint" means publisher's PDF!


> Publishers frequently ask for a link back to their online presence  
> with statements like:
> *         Must link to publisher version
> *         Must link to publisher version or journal home page
> *         Must link to APA journal home page
> We've looked in the metadata fields available and cannot really find  
> a perfect place for this information and link.  Has anyone set a  
> standard practice for this using metadata?


There should be an "other locations" field in DSpace, as there is in  
EPrints. (If not, someone should quickly create/configure one.)

That's the place to put the link to the publisher link.


> The other option is to include this information as a preliminary  
> page added to the actual submission, embedding the information in  
> the digital object itself.  If there are any other great ideas  
> floating around, we'd sure like to hear.


Yes, that's an option, and not bad as scholarly practice. But since it  
entails more work for the author, and since it's already like pulling  
teeth to get them to deposit, it's probably more efficient to use the  
"other locations" field in the IR interface.


> Publishers frequently state that "Publisher version cannot be used",  
> allowing only the author's pre or post refereeing drafts.  Well, as  
> it turns out, many of the faculty that have time to consider  
> archiving their legacy are emeritus or close to it and the  
> publications they're interested in archiving no longer have a  
> digital author's copy available.  We're stuck with how to proceed,  
> if indeed we can.  Does scanning and OCRing a printed copy of an  
> article satisfy this requirement?


I agree completely with the previous reply by Shane Beers below: Just  
"repurpose" the PDF or scanned OCR.

Stevan Harnad


> From: Shane Beers <sbeers -- gmu.edu>
>
>> I've discussed this in past dspace threads, but I'll mention it again
>> here. I frequently use a software called ABBYY FineReader Pro (http://www.abbyy.com/finereader8/?param=44890
>> ), which allows one to import an existing PDF and re-purpose the
>> content. I've been thinking about writing up a guide to using ABBYY  
>> to
>> do this, but it's not difficult to figure out, in my opinion.
>> Essentially you take the content and de-select things like page
>> headers/footers/etc and create a new PDF that uses the same textual
>> content, but does not contain any publisher information. This
>> successfully side-steps that issue, in my not-a-lawyer point of view.
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