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Open Access PDFs

Created by Beccy Shipman on Apr 12, 2011 · last edited by Paul Wheatley · on May 10, 2012 (view history) · 11 versions

Basic description	Open Access research outputs and etheses (sample being used from White Rose Research Online and White Rose eTheses Online)
Licensing	Open access
Institution	White Rose Libraries (Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York)
Collection expert	Bo Middleton, Beccy Shipman
Issues brainstorm	Is the file PDF or PDF/A? What's in the document? Are there objects embedded in the PDF? What are the embedded objects? Does it have OCR compression? What's the quality of the OCR? Who created the PDF? Check validity Check against the original Have we lost anything in the conversion process Embedded links Check that the PDF contains searchable text rather than embedded images only
List of issues	Embedded objects in PDFs Unknown PDF characteristics Embedded links within the PDF