Editing Using Issues for Quality Control (section)

===Searching for Issues===

Some issues may be time dependent, so will not be identified at the point of deposit or during the editorial review process. For example an item that is deposited as "In Press" (ie. due to be published) in 2007 may need attention if it is still "In Press" 2 years later - by that time the item will probably have been published and there may be extra metadata available (such as page numbers) which could be added to the item record. 

Furthermore, Repository administrators upgrading to EPrints 3.1 may want to revisit their existing records and use the new system to identify any potential problems.

EPrints provides an Issues Search function that is available to Repository Administrators via the Admin screen:

[[Image:Issues_search_button.png]]

The Issues Search allows the repository to be searched using a number of different criteria, including issue type (see Reference below), item publication date, type and subject headings. It is also possible to limit the search to one of the 4 areas of the repository - in the example below the Repository Administrator searches for all issues related to items in the live area of the repository:

[[Image:Issues_search_form.png]]

The search results are presented as a list of items, with each item's issues summarised below:

[[Image:Issues_search_results.png]]