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Comment: The Open Repositories 2015 at www.or2015.net appears to have fallen off of the internet, but I found that a copy of Anurag Acharaya's presentation is available at Indiana University's Media Collections Online site.

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titleEnabling PDF Cover Pages may affect your site's visibility in Google Scholar (and similar search engines)

Google Scholar specifically warns against automatically generating PDF Cover Pages, as they can break the metadata extraction techniques used by their search engine.  Be aware that enabling PDF Cover Pages may also cause those items to no longer be indexed by Google Scholar.  For more information, please see the "Indexing Repositories: Pitfalls and Best Practices" talk from Anurag Acharya (co-creator of Google Scholar) presented at the Open Repositories 2015 conference.


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A known issue with the current implementation of the PDF Citation Cover Page is that primarily only English/Roman characters are supported. This is due to a limitation in the tool used to generate PDFs.  See https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/issues/5590 for more details on this issue

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