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Digital Commons (DC) is an institutional repository platform for journals, conference proceedings, open educational resources, and more. It is used by over 500 academic institutions, healthcare centers, public libraries, and research centers to manage and showcase their institution's research and scholarship. DC can be used from Pure as an automated search source.
Background
Digital Commons was first added to Pure in 5.22 as an import source, allowing researchers to manually search for and bring content into Pure. With this release, we have expanded this integration and added functionality to automatically import research output on an institutional level.
The current configuration options for the Automatic Import of research output from Digital Commons are described below. The work to improve the automatic import configuration is ongoing and we are adding more configuration options and matching rules. Our goal is to optimize the automatic import configuration by making it possible to customize these rules based on the import source that is selected.
Feature details
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To enable the Automatic Import of research output from Digital Commons:
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| It is possible to set rules for the deduplication of content. A description is shown when a rule is selected from the menu. |
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| You can decide if you want to list records as import candidates or, based on configurable rules for the creation of content, automatically save the records to Pure. |
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In the 'Matching rules' section, you can set the conditions under which content is matched in Pure. In the 'Data enrichment rules' section, you can set the rules (and data) with which you want to enrich existing content in Pure. |
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| You can also set the workflow step the imported content should be saved in to allow for a check on content that was imported directly. |
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If you are enabling Digital Commons as an import source for the first time, you can select to import content in Bulk Mode. The job will check the import source for all content related to an organization, and all matched content will be imported into Pure in line with the configured import rules. |
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Type and data mapping
Digital Commons to Pure type mapping
| Digital Commons type | Description | Pure type |
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article Article Articles original_research |
Research paper (scientific journal) | Contribution to journal → Article |
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bachelor_thesis master_thesis |
Dissertation (Master's) | Types of thesis → Master's Thesis |
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book Book |
Book | Book → Book |
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book_contribution bookchapter Book Chapter Book Chapters |
Chapter in a book or in a paper | Book → Chapter |
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conference Conference Proceeding Conference Proceedings |
Contribution to conference paper | Contribution to conference → Paper |
| dataset | Dataset - these are ignored | Not mapped |
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dissertation Dissertation Dissertations |
Dissertation (Doctoral) Customer may need to enable this type of thesis in research output → types. |
Types of thesis → Doctoral Thesis |
| editorial | Contribution to Journal (Editorial) | Contribution to specialist publication → Editorial |
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master_thesis bachelor_thesis |
Dissertation (Master's) | Types of thesis → Master's Thesis |
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workingpaper Working Paper Working Papers |
Working paper | Working paper |
| other types | If other/empty.. | Other → Other |
Digital Commons to Pure data mapping
Digital Commons field |
DC field type |
Pure field |
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| document_type | List | Type |
| institution_title | String | Organisation title |
| institution | List | Organisation - List of organisations related to the publication |
| publication_title | String | Host Publication Title |
| url | String | Electronic version → Link |
| abstract | String | Abstract |
| doi | String | Electronic Link → DOI |
| context_key |
Unique publication identifier String
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Source Id |
| title | String | Title (of contribution in original language) |
| fulltext_url | String | Electronic version → File |
| peer_reviewed | boolean | Peer reviewed |
| embargo_date | String | Embargo date |
| publication_date | String | Publication date |
| author | List | Authors |
| author_userid |
Contains BepressID of author(s) if the author has an email address associated in Digital Commons List |
BepressID Person ID type |
Further information
Site: https://www.elsevier.com/products/digital-commons
FAQ: https://digitalcommons.elsevier.com/en_US/digital-commons-api-getting-started
API Documentation: https://digitalcommons.elsevier.com/digital-commons-api-getting-started
API: Example response: example_response.json
Updated at February 20, 2025