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<p><font size="2" face="sans-serif">Hi,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">with the upcoming reform of the doctoral regulations of one of our faculties, we have to accommodate cumulative PhD theses in our repo.</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">I'm wondering how other EPrints repos are doing this.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Our idea is</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- to deposit the parts as individual eprints, so document type, coauthors, licenses, embargos etc. can be specified</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- to deposit the main document (the thesis) as individual eprint. Use type dissertation as usual, maybe have an additional field dissertation_type that has values "cumulative" and "monographic"</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">- as soon as the main document is available, link the parts and the main document in both directions using related URLs with URL Type "HasPart" and "IsPartOf" (or similar). The related URL is the eprint id URL</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Pros: Workflow remains (nearly) unchanged, allows maximum flexibility for parts and main document, academic reporting is done for the parts at the time (year) when they were published/deposited, parts are deposited even if for some reason the PhD thesis will be unable to come about</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Con: Thesis must be downloaded in parts (we would display the links to the related parts in the download section)</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Instead of the related URL/URL Type there is also the ItemRef Metafield type for linking eprints, but I'm somewhat hesitant.</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">What do you think?</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Best regards,</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Martin</font><br>
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<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Dr. Martin Brändle</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Zentrale Informatik</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Universität Zürich</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">Stampfenbachstr. 73</font><br>
<font size="2" face="sans-serif">CH-8006 Zürich</font></body></html>