[...] So, to get to my question. In DSpace 5.0, we actually added a basic PDF > Cover Page capability (which was requested by DCAT and others): > https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC5x/PDF+Citation+Cover+Page > > As this may have strong implications for inclusion in Google Scholar, > should we consider removing this functionality from DSpace? > > For the time being, I've placed warnings in the Documentation for this > feature to try to dissuade institutions from enabling it if Google > Scholar inclusion is of high importance.
An alternative idea I had was to do some kind of conditional inclusion -- we already skip cover page generation if the user is authenticated as an administrator, perhaps we could also inspect user agent, IP block, etc. to determine if the 'user' is a Google Scholar crawler, and send the raw PDF without cover page if so. Cheers Kim (not getting involved in the PDF debate, but a bit sad that Google Scholar have so much power - we are more than just free, compliant data sources for Google...) M: k...@shepherd.nz T: @kimshepherd P: +6421883635 0CCB D957 0C35 F5C1 497E CDCF FC4B ABA3 2A1A FAEC https://keybase.io/kshepherd
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