Portal:PubMan

CoLab Portal for PubMan

PubMan - the eSciDoc Solution for Publication Management: PubMan supports scientists and institutes in the management and the digital curation of their publications. This solution addresses all disciplines and focuses on the target groups of scientists, local librarians and local IT. Due to the heterogeneous policies, cultures and workflows of the Max Planck Institutes, customization and configuration options throughout the solution's features are of major importance.

With PubMan, the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) develops a service-oriented, flexible-to-use institutional repository software. The software is a solution within the eSciDoc project, which is a joint open-source project by the MPDL and the FIZ Karlsruhe.

To keep track of ideas, specifications, concepts, prototypes, communication with partners etc., we use the MPDL CoLaboratory (CoLab) as main documentation and communication channel. All specifications, concepts and ideas are referenced in the category PubMan.

PubMan Quick Start You can have a look at the test installation with the latest release of PubMan. In order to get a full overview on the PubMan functionalities, please log on to the system with the demo account we have created for this issue. User name is "demo" and the password is also "demo". Please also have a look at the short guided tour on PubMan in order to get an overview on the current PubMan Features. In our PubMan Blog you can catch up on recent PubMan developments.

Basic Functionalities/Concepts Basic functionalities For better overview, we divide the basic functionalities of the repository into three main areas of interaction with users and/or systems: Submitting content Managing content (Re-)Using content Basic concepts For proper design of the solution and its features and alignment with conditions applied to other services, you find here an overview of our basic functional concepts. Versioning Control of Named Entities Persistent Identification Collections and Organizational Units Metadata

PubMan Community The development of PubMan, as any other eSciDoc solution, is very community-driven. Based on an overall participation concept, Early Adopters and Pilot institutes from the Max Planck Society are closely involved into the software development life cycle. The communities represent the variety of scientific fields within the Max Planck Society and the different interest groups (scientists, librarians, local IT) for an institutional repository. If you want to have a personalized user account or become part of the PubMan Community, please contact Nicole Kondic.

Current functionalities

Access to content You can run a google-like search (in metadata and full text) by entering a search term in the top search field. Try an advanced search for combining different search fields. In addition, you can access the data by browsing by organizational units (Organizations Search). Display and export of content Item lists (i.e. list of references) can be sorted by different criteria, and can be displayed with different level of details (Short, medium views) References can be exported in various formats (rtf, pdf, html, odt) and citation styles (currently only APA) or sent by email. In addition, export to Endnote is possible. An Search and Output Service allows user-/local specific queries of data for integration into local systems The service can be accessed directly under REST interface or via a user-friendly interface. Creation of content Depending on the level of detail, logged-in users have two possibilities to submit data: Easy Submission: A wizard-based, short entry mask to provide the minimum bibliographic metadata of a publication. In addition, user can choose to fetch metadata from arXiv or upload a BibTeX reference for pre-fill the edit mask. Full Submission: Data entry mask (submission mask), which covers the complete bibliographic metadata for detailed descriptions of publications, creators and affiliated organization, publishing information, related events and subject topics. Quality Assurance of Content automatic validation by the system, based on defined validation points and validation rules. Constraints for validation can be configured for each context (i.e.collection). Modification of Metadata after release with appropriate change log (release history). Versioning Tracking of working versions (i.e. modifications of metadata) Tracking of revisions by relating intellectually revised fulltext versions Statistics Basic statistics for publication data (Metadata and/or attached fulltexts) Collections, Organizational Units and Users Contexts (i.e.collections), Organizational Units and Users are managed in an own eSciDoc solution, called the admin solution. This solution is also available for other eSciDoc solutions like FACES or ViRR.

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