Questions and Answers about the Digital
Commons
Paul Royster
University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
This paper is posted at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska- Lincoln.
What does a series editor or series administrator do?
For most series, the editor or administrator:
1. receives an ema...
Digital Commons / Institutional Repository
Information
University of Nebraska - Lincoln Year
Questions and Answers about the Digital
Commons
Paul Royster
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, proyster@unl.edu
This paper is posted at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln.
http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/ir information/13
, Digital Commons — Questions & Answers
you, it should be okay. If it has already been published in
a book or journal, it should be okay.
Can a paper be removed after it is posted?
Questions & Answers
Yes. By the submitting author, by the series editor, or by
the site administrator.
What does a “series editor” or “series administrator” do?
If my article is already online, what is the point of
For most series, the editor or administrator: depositing it in the Digital Commons?
1. receives an email notification when a paper is
Your article may not be:
submitted to their series
• accessible to non-subscribers
2. checks if the paper conforms to the series
• accessible from IPs outside the subscribing
guidelines—mainly, that it is in the right subject-
institution
area and isn’t spurious or inappropriate
• at its own stand-alone URL (but rather in a
3. posts the paper to the series, which sends an
database that uses a Java search syntax)
automatic email notification to the submitting
• preserved in the website’s next revision or update
author
• indexed by Google (search on the title and see if
A series editor also has the power to upload documents
and where it comes up)
directly (without any review process), add other
• identified directly with UNL or contributing to its
editors, and change the series configuration.
digital “critical mass”
Does a series editor (administrator) have to read all the
What if I don’t have an electronic version of my article?
papers in their series?
We can take an offprint or xerox, scan it, and post it as a
No. It should be clear from the abstract if a paper is
pdf image-only file. It will not be full-text searchable, so
misguided or misdirected (such as a chemistry paper
write a detailed abstract to aid in finding. Some scanning
submitted in an economics series). If it is from a
programs will also produce a text-based version, which
departmental colleague or graduate student known to
is even better.
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