Authority Lists

EPrints can autocomplete on an authority file. The file needs to be placed in eprints3/archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/autocomplete/.

Using the EPrints Romeo Authority File

EPrints Romeo is a service which provides a list of journals and their open access status. A EPrints 3 authority file is available from their website.

%cd /opt/eprints3/archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/autocomplete
%wget romeo.eprints.org/romeo_journals.autocomplete

Now the file needs to be linked into the workflow. Edit the file

/opt/eprints3/archives/ARCHIVEID/cfg/workflows/eprint/default.xml

Find the input for Publication Title

<field ref="publication" required="yes" input_lookup_url="{$config{perl_url}}/users/lookup/journal_by_name" />

By default, this is set to use the 'journal_by_name' script, which searches records already in the repository. However, now that we have a long list of journals that we've downloaded from Romeo, we'd like to use that instead. Modify the line:

 <field ref="publication" required="yes" input_lookup_url="{$config{perl_url}}/users/lookup/file" input_lookup_params="file=romeo_journals.autocomplete"/>

All that is left now is to restart the webserver.

Creating Your Own Authority File

To use your own file, change 'romeo_journals.autocomplete' to the name of your file.

The format of the file is a set of lines. Each single line represents one entry in the authority file.

An entry consists of:

• A lookup string
• A tab
• A chunk of XML