[Dspace-general] Request Copy and Restricted Access

[Susanna Mornati]

Hi,
it's true several harvesting sites do not collect metadata where the 
full-text is not available.
For instance PLEIADI, the Portal for the Italian Electronic 
Literature in Open and Institutional Archives, at:
http://www.openarchives.it/pleiadi/index.php?sel_lang=english
selects only items with accessible full-text from Italian 
OAI-compliant repositories.
This is not a technical restriction but a policy choice.

But the most important drawback of restricted access is that it makes 
impossible
to perform more extensive work on texts, such as citation analysis, 
text mining, etc.

Regards, Susanna


Susanna Mornati, CILEA
Project Leader AEPIC, www.aepic.it

At 11:44 18/01/2008, Hutchinson, Alvin wrote:
>I wonder how many people are using the 'Request Copy' button to 
>restrict access to repository content on a case-by-case basis. If 
>you are not familiar with this, you can learn more at: 
>http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php//RequestCopy
>
>To see what it looks like in practice, go to: http://hdl.handle.net/10088/2624
>
>My question is whether some repository harvesting sites such as 
>OpenDOAR, Google Scholar and/or the OAI-PMH harvesters would object 
>to having content 'restricted' in this sense. Most of the 
>harvester/aggregator sites ask that all content be freely available 
>before they will include a Dspace installation in their index.
>
>Technically such items are freely available to any user (with the 
>consent of the author) and there is no requirement to register 
>and/or pay for the material.
>
>Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Would it be inappropriate to 
>open my repository up to these services if some (most, all, few?) 
>contents are limited in this way? Your opinions are greatly appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Alvin Hutchinson
>Smithsonian Institution Libraries