Enhanced embargo functionality
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Key: DS-645
URL: http://jira.dspace.org/jira/browse/DS-645
Project: DSpace 1.x
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: JSPUI, XMLUI
Affects Versions: 1.6.2
Reporter: Jim Ottaviani
Two features to improve the current embargo functionality:
* Full embargo capability
Under a full embargo, an item is submitted and assigned a persistent
URL/handle, but no information (metadata or bitstream) is visible or searchable
until the embargo has lifted. This is, in effect, a temporary withdrawal, with
an expiration date after which the item becomes reinstated.
Note that this is how authors and publishers affected by the many and various
mandated open access policies (NIH, Wellcome, etc.) define embargo, since e.g.
the NIH does not make anything visible in PubMed Central until the embargo is
lifted.
* Current functionality: partial embargo warning text
As currently configured, an embargoed item, its metadata, and the "View/Open"
link for its bitstream are all visible, with no indication that the bitstream
is not accessible. An automatic note should be placed in e.g. the bitstream
description field indicating that the bitstream can not in fact be viewed or
opened by most users.
The current implementation provides a bad user experience -- in effect, a
bait-and-switch: Everyone sees the "View/Open" link, but that link doesn't open
the file; it instead triggers a login prompt. But after doing so, users find
they still can't access the bitstream unless they're a site administrator. The
administrator can of course add "Access to file restricted until DD-MMM-YYYY"
or something similar to the item retroactively, but having the system prompt
for this, or do it automatically, is appropriate.
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