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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.

 

Adding a cover page to retrieved documents from DSpace that include additional citation information has been sought, as documents uploaded to the repository might have had their context stripped from them, when they are just a PDF. Context that might have surrounded the document would be the journal, publisher, edition, and more. Without that information, the document might just be a few pages of text, with no way to piece it together. Since repository policy might be to include this information as metadata to the Item, this metadata can be added to the citation cover page, so that the derivative PDF includes all of this information.

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