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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">I have an idea
to solve the problem of time management and ease of deposit, it is simple for
the author, not sure how hard it is technically to set up. I'm a geek,
but not that sort!</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Here's how it
would work. <BR><BR>1. Have an email address that faculty simply send their
paper to (cc admin assistants!) and where mandated this can be the simple
instruction for what they must do to participate.
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">2. Have that
email send an automated reply to get the rest of the data needed (author info,
institution, any files not sent? that kind of thing). On the other
end, have that data entered into the repository with the paper, perhaps
there is an easy automated way to transfer this to online
database (CSV?). </FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">3. When its
done send a link that allows the faculty person to correct any errors by online
form, add any missing files, and approve the submission. They then feel happy to
see it up there without having done that much work and will want to do it
again. The charm of it is how simply it starts, and how the rest is
initiated by e-mail reminder to completion.<BR><BR>All this amounts to for us
who are submitting is sending an email with an attachment(and not thinking any
more about it until the next mail), replying to an email(and not thinking any
more about it until the next mail), and checking over the submission to click
approve. Done.<BR><BR>Arif <BR>Sent from my BlackBerry device on the
Rogers Wireless Network</FONT><BR><BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>