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

[Conal Tuohy]

On Tue, 2008-04-22 at 10:36 -0400, Stevan Harnad wrote:
> On 22-Apr-08, at 10:12 AM, dspace-general-request at mit.edu wrote:

> > 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.

dc.relation (or one of its more specialised form such as isVersionOf / hasVersion or similar) is a good way to store this information, in my opinion.

http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-isVersionOf
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-hasVersion



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Conal Tuohy
New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
www.nzetc.org