[Dspace-general] storage of full-text outside DSpace

[Bram Luyten]

Dear Karen,

one of the biggest drawbacks, when you decide to exclude full-text from the
submission, is that your full-text won't be indexed in the Lucene search
indexes in DSpace.
As a consequence, the only information that will be used in the search, will
be the metadata of your items.

On the other hand, if you really want to go this way, it is now by default
possible in DSpace 1.5 to disable the hard requirement to include a
full-text in the submission (so you can skip the file upload step). We often
see that authors or institutions choose to take the approach, to provide a
URL, rather than uploading the full text.

an example: https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/15035

In many cases, this is because they feel more secure (in a copyright-way)
when linking to the website of the publisher, instead of uploading the
full-text in the repository.

with kindest regards,

Bram Luyten

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2008/6/3 Janssens Karen <Karen.Janssens at ua.ac.be>:

>  Hello
>
> Does anyone have experience with using DSpace only as a 'publication and
> distribution platform' providing the metadata and links to the
> full-textitems, while those full-textitems are stored not within the
> DSpace repository but on a different location. We are considering this
> approach at our institution to have more control on the storage of the
> full-texts. Would there be serious reasons to discourage this approach?
> An so yes, why?
>
> Also if you have no personal experience but know of institutions doing
> somethin like this, I'd be very interested to have the reference.
>
>
> Many thanks in advance!
>
> Karen
>
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