Why include the PDF file in an item when only the metadata is accessible?

[Ignacio López Guillamón]

I need to argue why a document (book or book chapter) whose publisher does not authorise its accessibility should be deposited and have restricted access.

There is the ‘facility’ to allow access to ANECA (Spain), if requested... without the need to contact the author, etc...

I need to know a more technical reason...

[Никола Шћепанчевић]

Hello,

I would like point out from my practice, that pdfs of copyright articles, books, book chapters and alike are not mandatory in our repository, but it is desirable to have them because in advancing process to the higher academic rank, full text should be accessible to the institution's academic council for making decision about promotion. So you have to make them accessible to academic council of your institution, so they could follow the scientific advances of a candidate.  

Respectfully yours,

Nikola Scepancevic

Librarian, editor of repository

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Mathematics

Belgrade, Serbia

[Jorge Gustavo Spertino]

Hello everyone,

Just an opinion regarding my colleague's question.
A somewhat general argument could be that having the full text of the document is essential so that when the monopoly period for the commercial exploitation rights of the document expires (whether for the author or the publisher that acquired those rights), the document is available to legally make it publicly accessible, and doesn't depend on whether or not the document exists online at that time.

Best regards,

Jorge

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[Fatih Güneş]

As far as I know, even if the pdf file is restricted, SOLR indexes that file. So if someone search for a keyword and the keyword is not in the metadata of the item, it can be shown in results if the keyword exists in the pdf.

BR.

Fatih