Withdrawn Items

[Keith Jones]

Hi All,

I'm running an instance of dspace 5.3 using the xmlui interface, and
recently had a user send me a request for a withdrawn item. I was
wondering how the user was able to send the request, when I try to
access the item, the public interface just says the item is withdrawn.
How did the user generate the "Request copy of document" email?

Thanks
Keith

[Bill Tantzen]

Coincidentally, I just received a complaint about this behavior myself...  We are running DSpace v5.10 and xmlui as well.  The withdrawn items are in google search results and the link in google is to the Request a copy page.  This explains how the user is able to obtain the link to the Request a copy page, but it doesn't explain why, since the records were never embargoed to begin with.

I haven't investigated this any further, but I seem to recall that withdrawn items are still discoverable, but are they still crawled (or placed in sitemaps)?  How are they interpreted as embargoed?  I'll be digging a little deeper, since this is highly undesirable behavior, but has anybody else noticed this?

~~ Bill

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[Bill Tantzen]

A little followup on this -- in our case this is the result of specific bitstream (not item) urls in the google search index.  When interpreting these urls in BitstreamReader.java, DSpace responds with a 302 Found response and redirects to the request-a-copy page regardless of whether or not the bitstream was embargoed or not.  It looks like this is exactly how DSpace was designed to respond in this situation.

Hope that sheds some light on your situation!

~~ Bill