[EP-underground] - editing of papers

Dear all
We've had complaints from archive contributors because they 
cannot edit their papers once they have been deposited. If they 
want to make a change, they have to clone their paper, edit the 
clone and deposit that and then request removal of the original. 
This means an URL change which is the very thing we don't want 
to see - we promised permanent URLs and if they get a new URL 
for a cloned paper, then it's harder for them as they have often 
linked to the URL or mailed it out to colleagues. This became an 
issue as one staffer deposited a lot of materials which he wanted 
to upgrade a little later with references etc. Since I did not know 
about his plans, I moved them to the main archive and he thus lost 
control over them from an editing point of view - unless he asked 
me to bounce all 32 back which is rather time consuming.  In the 
end he had to clone all 32 papers which seems really daft. Any 
hope of a change here? We couldn't leave the earlier records in 
the archive as the papers themselves were identical - only the 
metadata had changed a little.
cheers
Belinda


Belinda Weaver, Co-ordinator, UQ E-Print Archive
University of Queensland Library
University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4072.
Tel   : +617 336 58281 Fax : +617 336 57930
Email : [email protected]