permissions for non-institution downloaders

[Jamie Jamison]

I'm trying to work out permissions for a faculty member who wants his dataset to be publicly available but for users to  request first.

UCLA Dataverse is limited to UC login.  Is there a way to set up a non-institutional ID similar to the "authenticated-users"  ID?

Thank you,

Jamie Jamison

UCLA Dataverse

[Philip Durbin]

Hi Jamie, I replied here: #troubleshooting > permissions for non-institutional downloaders

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[fa...@kb.dk]

I've thought about a workaround for this case using Preview URL's, though I haven't come to use it in practice yet:

1) Create the dataset without files (or placeholder files only).

2) Add a note in the description about any files that will be available upon request and instructions for how to make a request (e.g. by using the 'Contact' button for the dataset).

3) Publish the dataset.

4) Create a new draft version of the dataset with the files, but do not publish it.

5) When someone requests access to the file, generate and share a Preview URL to the draft version.

Of course, this has some drawbacks and limitations, but it should work as a somewhat manual access procedure. I guess you can also combine it with a Guestbook if you have at least one unrestricted file.

Regards,

Falco