[GOAL] Re: Request for information on repository request-copy Button

2013-10-19 Thread Stevan Harnad
On 2013-10-17, at 10:18 PM, dtpalmer dtpal...@hku.hk wrote: Our button is called “Contact the Author(s)?” Function is similar. It appears when we have the email address of one of the authors and when no fulltext object is attached. That's infinitesimally better than nothing -- but not

[GOAL] Re: Request for information on repository request-copy Button

2013-10-18 Thread Stevan Harnad
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Gibson, Lyn l.gib...@napier.ac.uk wrote: Here at Edinburgh Napier University we have the “Request a copy” button. The Research Repository uses Eprints software hosted by Southampton version 3.2.3 ** ** We currently have 4039 eprints, of which only 1315

[GOAL] Re: Request for information on repository request-copy Button

2013-10-17 Thread Stevan Harnad
Dear Eloy, Bram Carol, As Eloy was the first to adopt the Button for DSpace, could you or Bram (or anyone else) please help with this? It apparently needs an upgrade, and it's especially important to provide and embed it in DSpace core at this crucial time in the evolution of OA policy

[GOAL] Re: Request for information on repository request-copy Button

2013-10-17 Thread Eloy Rodrigues
Dear Stevan, I completely support the request to have the Request Copy functionality embedded in the vanilla DSpace versions. We've been upgrading the Request Copy Add-on (for the jsp interface, that it's the one we are using) since we first developed it. We are currently upgrading the