Javier, Not directly related to the feature I'm adding, but I think I found why the deposit submission is taking so long to be performed. I think that when the autocomplete query for sherpa romeo search is performed it takes about ~3/4mins to get this<http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/api29.php?jtitle=s&qtype=contains>, and in the end nothing is being return. I don't know, it might be related...
I won't work on this now, I just though it would be nice to have some notes to help someone (if it isn't me) to fix it later. Cheers, Pedro