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Open Academic Environment (OAE) Front-End
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Allow authors to add link to an arXiv manuscript #383

Open micheleidesmith opened 9 years ago

micheleidesmith commented 9 years ago

This is an alternative to the file upload. Instead authors can provide a link to their manuscript.

Manuscript metadata in the Avocet form should be auto-populated from arXiv where possible e.g. manuscript title, journal title, authors.

bertpareyn commented 9 years ago

It's easy for us to add an extra field with validation for a link to an arxiv publication. Auto-populating the form based on the link that was put in by the user will require back-end work and probably a lot more thinking about if we really need this and if the alternative is worth the trouble.

micheleidesmith commented 9 years ago

As discussed I'll work on a user flow for this so we can discuss further next week. As a minimum it would be useful to collect the link, manuscript title and arXiv version of the manuscript (v1, v2 etc.).

bertpareyn commented 9 years ago

I've worked out a very basic prototype in avocet-hilary that retrieves arxiv info based on a link. Let me know if you want to check it out.