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Publishing target types

In your Project Settings, you can create or edit existing publishing targets to publish your content from your projects. There are several publishing target type options to choose from, including:

JSTOR Community Collections

JSTOR’s Open Community Collections initiative unlocks the potential of your institution’s special collections by making them available on the platform researchers, faculty, and students already know and use. You can publish either institutional or public collections to JSTOR.

Institutional Collections in Artstor

Institutional Collections in Artstor will allow users associated with your institution to see your content co-mingled with Artstor Digital Library subscription content. Your institution’s users can access this content freely on-campus, and with a user account when off-campus in order to organize and download this content.

Public Collections in Artstor

Public Collections are freely accessible at library.artstor.org. Unlike Institutional and Personal Collections, Public Collections do not require logging in or campus access.

Personal Collections in Artstor

Personal Collections can be used as a way for faculty to manage their own collections in both Forum and Artstor. Multiple users may have access to catalog items for a Personal Collection in Forum, but the target is designed to publish only to an individual user’s Personal Collection in Artstor. Whenever that user logs into Artstor, they will see their Personal Collection listed alongside any previously existing Personal Collections managed in Artstor. If items are intended for sharing with other users, the owner can create groups in Artstor and manage the visibility of their items.

Omeka

Omeka is an open source web publishing platform developed by George Mason University’s Roy Rozenzweig Center for History and New Media. Publishing to an Omeka target allows your Forum content to be accessed through a fully customizable interface.

OAI

Publishing to an OAI server will allow your collections to be harvested and integrated within other environments, such as institutional repositories and discovery systems. OAI Targets for Discovery Vendors includes more information about publishing to an OAI server.

Creating a publishing target

To create a publishing target:

  1. In your collection, click the Project Settings button.
  2. Under the Targets tab, select Add.
  3. Choose a target type and follow the on-screen steps to configure your target.
  4. When publishing to JSTOR or Artstor you can configure the following options:
    • Access level - Choose whether your collection will be available to the public, users at your institution, or create a personal collection (Artstor).
    • Collection Name/Title - Create a name that is descriptive and specific as possible. While there is no character limit, the ideal length is 80 characters or less.
    • Collection Description
      • JSTOR - Help researchers understand what’s in the collection. Be concise and clear; write in short sentences and short, scannable blocks. Keep the most important text up front, and focus on one idea per paragraph.
      • Artstor - This description appears in Artstor above your collection to offer additional context. The character limit is 1,000 characters, and it can be edited at a later time.
      • You can include hyperlinks in your description using the following markup in the text of your description. Example:
        <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jstor.org">Visit JSTOR</a>
    • Collection Image/Thumbnail
      • JSTOR - Choose an image that best represents the collection.
        • 560 by 400 pixel or larger PNG, JPG, or GIF
        • You may also include an image caption. Consider including the following information in the caption: creator, title, date, media, institution, and copyright.
      • Artstor - Displays next to the description. Some examples of the collection image include an institution's logo or an image from the collection that represents the content.
        • 240 by 240 pixel PNG or JPG
    • Image download options - Set the maximum download resolution for images in the collection. Options include:
      • No downloads / Download not allowed
      • 400 pixels (JPEG)
      • 1024 pixels (JPEG)
      • 3000 pixels (JPEG)
      • Maximum download size (JPEG)
    • Collection options (Artstor)
      • Default Target - Set this target to be a default target to publish to from your project.
      • Cluster Items Linked to Works (Institutional or Public Collection in Artstor only) - If using work records, check this box so items linked to works display together as a cluster when the collection is browsed. For more information, see Link Items to a Work & Publishing Works.
  2. Collection URL (JSTOR) - Create a URL for your collection, this URL is permanent and can't be changed later.
  3. Click Finish to finish creating your target.

Editing publishing targets

To edit an existing target:

  1. In your collection, click the Project Settings button.
  2. Under the Targets tab, select the target you want to edit and select Edit.
  3. You can make changes to the options configured when the target was created, such as the name, description, and maximum download size (see "Creating a publishing target"), with the exception of:
    • Access level
    • Collection URL (JSTOR)
  4. In addition, you can also configure:
  5. Click Save to save your changes.
Note - For institutional, public, and personal collections in Artstor, please republish any items that were published prior to making changes to your publishing target.

Removing publishing targets

To remove a publishing target from a project, you first need to suppress or delete all items published to that target from that project. You may then remove the target:

  1. In your collection, click the Project Settings button.
  2. Under the Targets tab, select the target you want to edit and select the trash can icon.

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