Collection exclusion from web indexing

[pierre...@bibl.ulaval.ca]

Bonjour, 

Is there a way in DSpace 7 to exclude collections from web indexing (Google, Google Scholar, Yahoo, Bing, etc.). Can it simply be done with the robot.txt file?

Thank you very much for you help!

Best, 

Pierre

[Tim Donohue]

Hi Pierre,

DSpace doesn't have an inherent way to do this other than by access restricting the Collection.  However, if you want the Collection to be publicly available but not indexed, then the best way would be to use the robots.txt file to do so (as all major search engines should respect the robots.txt).

Tim

---

From: dspace-c...@googlegroups.com <dspace-c...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of pierre...@bibl.ulaval.ca <pierre...@bibl.ulaval.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022 10:12 AM
To: DSpace Community <dspace-c...@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [dspace-community] Collection exclusion from web indexing

 

--
All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx
---
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Community" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-communi...@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-community/f604cde7-48ae-4a5f-a2db-b0c5e7fb7bb5n%40googlegroups.com.