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

[Girija S.]

Dear Jeremy,

We use Dspace 1.4.2 and address your questions in the following way:

1.  We use the relation.uri to give a link to the published version of the 
article.  We use the doi if available and have labelled this field as 
'alternative location'.  This creates a clickable link and anyone with 
subscription to the journal can access it immediately.

2.  We have hosted all our institute publications on our repository 
(including all of C.V. Raman's publications). We have scanned the older 
articles (as they were not yet online).  The fulltext is open-access or 
restricted access depending on the publisher's copyright policies.  If 
open-access versions are available at arXiv or ADS, we also give a link to 
this using the relation.uri.  We plan to add the request-a-copy button in 
future so that restricted articles can be requested by anyone.
Even now, anyone can contact us to get the restricted items.

As you can guess, we are using the repository to also archive all the 
publications of the institute at a central place.

Have a look at http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3442 to get an idea.

Best wishes,
Girija



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On Mon, 21 Apr 2008, Jeremy C. Shellhase wrote:

> Hello Dspace users,
>
> 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.
>
> Question 1.
>
> 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?
> 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.
>
> Question 2.
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance and keep up the good work.
>
> Jeremy C. Shellhase
> Systems Librarian
> Humboldt State University Library
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