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Acacia – Overview

Acacia is a system for managing submissions for currently targetting CaltechAUTHORS EPrints Repositories. The purpose of Acacia is to encourage submissions by requiring a minimum of information. That minimum is currently set as the DOI and URL to the digital object identified by the DOI.

This simple submission requirements allows for easy inguest of content by use of EMail and simple web forms. For EMail submissions a person or form sends a message to submissions.authors@library.caltech.edu. In the text (body) of the message they need to include one or more lines starting with a DOI, followed by a pipe symbol and URL to the digital object. The pipe and URL maybe omitted.

Acacia includes a process that regularly checks the email address above and processes new emails retrieving the metadata of the DOI. This submitted DOI can then be reviewed by Library Staff via a web application hosted on apps.library.caltech.edu. Submissions can then be edited and exported for ingest into EPrints via EPrints XML or flagged for removed.

Email Submissions

Only lines that start with a DOI are processed. All other lines are ignored. The URL to the object is optional though highly recommended. You input a pipe symbol “|” between the DOI and URL. The end of line delimits between submissions. One email can contain many submissions.

Example email submissions

A hand typed email used to DOI the submission process:

This is a test message for processing DOI

10.1007/bfb0106626 <https://doi.org/10.1007/bfb0106626>

Just a test,

From R. S. Doiel account

An example of an ACM Open submission:

10.1007/BF02547335 | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF02547335.pdf

10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03559-4 | https://www.ams.org/journals/proc/1997-125-01/S0002-9939-97-03559-4/S0002-9939-97-03559-4.pdf

10.1090/S0002-9939-97-03726-X | https://www.ams.org/journals/proc/1997-125-05/S0002-9939-97-03726-X/S0002-9939-97-03726-X.pdf

10.1007/BF02392693 | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/BF02392693.pdf

10.5169/seals-117010

10.1016/0191-8141(94)90075-2 | https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/0191814194900752?token=B55983919101629946793E0A6056F7946CE8354B4F67536AF667C40F3A5CBA298C067F63543459264DFE1D8DBD818EA1&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20210517225526

10.1016/0040-1951(92)90129-T | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/004019519290129T/pdf?md5=6465199ae8768412c840430a230f5525&pid=1-s2.0-004019519290129T-main.pdf

10.1016/0040-1951(92)90296-I | https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/004019519290296I?token=FA049D124E8379B171A51D55EC7E10024A11C19869D70ABCBF4A9D5369BBEA9B5F957B9DCB35D7D06E31EF77C1D28A44&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20210517225749

10.1021/ja982536e | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja982536e

10.1021/ja964472i | https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ja964472i