eprints_tech messages

From: "Christopher D. Green" <christo AT yorku.ca>
Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 13:08:32 -0400

Hi Folks,

I'm new to this list. I'm a psychology professor at York Univeristy
(Toronto) who is in the process of setting up an Eprints archive for the
History & Theory of Psychology (HTP Prints). It is not "official" ↵
as
yet, but if you'd to have a look at the "beta" version, you can find ↵
it
at http://htpprints.yorku.ca/.

Even though I've only had a few people testing the site for me, I've run
across a couple things that have "agitated" more than one user. ↵
Perhaps
they can be altered in the next version of Eprints (or better yet, a
"patch" could be made for the current version).

(1) Conference papers and posters are automatically referenced as
"Proceedings <name of conference>". Often, however, there are ↵
no
"proceedings" volumes for conferences. Indeed, the very reason one ↵
might
wish to post one's conference paper or poster on an Eprints archive is
that no such volume exists. Could this default be changed to "Paper
presented at <name of conference>" and "Poster presented at ↵
<name of
conference>"?

(2) A number of users have already asked me if they can change their
passwords to something more memorable than the password generated for
them by the software. As far as I can tell, there is no way to do this.
Could a changeable field be included in, say, the "View/Change Your User
Record" page to allow people to do this?

Again, I'm new to the list, and apologize if these things have come up
before.

Best regards,
--
Christopher D. Green
Department of Psychology
York University
Toronto, Ontario M3J 1P3

e-mail: christo AT yorku.ca
phone:  416-736-5115 ext. 66164
fax:    416-736-5814
http://www.yorku.ca/christo/