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[EP-tech] Re: Autoarchive local copy of open access document

On 08/04/15 13:12, Andrew Beeken wrote:

Interesting one from a meeting - if an output is linked to an open
access copy that's hosted elsewhere, is there a known plugin or
methodology to get EPrints to autoarchive a local copy of that
document?

Not a generic solution, no.
Different repositories (meaning store of things) have different APIs for accessing content. 

Even Screen-Scraping isn't a solution, as the GUI is highly variable.
In theory, one could write a script that grabbed a defined URL, and pulled in all the .pdf / .doc / .xls / etc files and added then to an eprint specified on the command line - but there's always the risk that the web page has links to documents & things in the header/footer area; or there's a side-bar with additional content, or.... 

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Ian Stuart.
Developer: ORI, RJ-Broker, and OpenDepot.org
Bibliographics and Multimedia Service Delivery team,
EDINA,
The University of Edinburgh.

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