More on the Philosophic Exchange

Thanks for your patience while we worked on this. I’m going to go into a little more detail than usual because I think you will understand and because I think it will help us going forward. Bottom line, however, is that I’ve managed to fix the issues that are in reverse order and am still working through the best way to fix the ones that appear in random order. For the longer version, see below:
I got a little backstory on this journal from Jessica. It sounds like the original editor wanted “Recent Content” to show on the homepage:
http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/phil_ex/
In order to do this, the journal had to be sorted in “descending” order by manuscript id. In English, this means that the journal was sorted by the the number that was assigned to the article after publication (ie: the last number in the URL here:
http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/phil_ex/vol3/iss1/1/) in reverse order (15, 14, 13, etc.)
Because of the order articles published, this led to many of the issues being in reverse order. I have now gone in and changed the articles to sort by “ascending” order by article number. In English, this means that the journal is now sorted in “normal” order (1, 2, 3, etc) and uses the number that is assigned to the manuscript when the article is posted (not published). For example, using that same article, this would be “1122,” the number seen on the PDF:
http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1122&context=phil_ex
If you take a look at Vol3/Iss1 (or any of the other volumes that were reversed), I think they should appear as you would like (you may need to refresh your browser):
http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/phil_ex/vol3/iss1/

Going forward, this means that you should upload and publish in the order you would like the articles to appear, whether in a batch spreadsheet or uploading individually. I believe this is a change from previously, when you were uploading in reverse order.

Incrementally or closing issue - how publishing works

When publishing incrementally:
The default journal homepage sort order will be descending publication date (newest to oldest) then descending article ID number (highest to lowest).
By default, journals list “article” as the document type. That looks like what you used here:
http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/phil_ex/vol5/iss1/
If multiple document types are used, the issue page will sort content by document type according to the order of the document types input in the document types drop down. Then the content will be subsorted as listed above.
I believe the articles are sorting properly because you have uploaded them in the order you want to see AND because they all have the date of 1974 (i.e.: they are in the same year).
When publishing by closing issue:
As you noticed, when you are publishing by closing issue, you are able to set the order for the submissions just before closing the issue. By default, the published articles will sort by publication date and then article ID. We have set this journal to sort by article id descending (highest to lowest), and publication date descending (most recent first).
The same bit about “article type” from above applies.

In the case of publishing by issue, if you have all of your content, it can be best to use batch upload. Remember, however, to upload the articles in reverse order of how you would like them to appear. (I think I’ll get to this in your next email.) As noted above, by default, the articles will sort in descending order: highest number first.

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Meeting with Dance re: theses

On 9/1/15, I met with Maura Keefe and Pam Callen to discuss the retrospective and current thesis situation. Dance had been among the last to begin a collection, and late last summer they gave approval. They thought they wanted to scan the theses themselves, and received additional work study funding to do so, but in the end, none of them got posted. I set up a meeting with Pam, and serendipitously Maura joined in at the end and we discussed:

·         Pam will have student upload all scanned theses to a folder within the Master Thesis FC2 Dance folder.

·         Graduate student, instead of doing Quality Control on scanned theses, will use their expertise in the field to provide 4-5 keywords for each thesis in a spreadsheet, which will also be added to the FC2 drive.

·         Pam will provide Kim with any contact information for alumni, to make obtaining permission easier.

·         Maura will draft the email that will be generated when the thesis is uploaded, to notify advisor that the grade may be posted and forward it to Kim by the end of next week. She will also verify with the rest of the department that further curation is not necessary on the “old” theses – meaning if it’s in the library to take out, it’s available for posting. (Maura, I’m not sure whether that was a final decision yesterday, but I thought it was left that you wanted to check with the other faculty).

There is a step by step submission guide (http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/dns_theses/dns_thesisguide.pdf ) posted on the site, but based on yesterday’s discussion I will need to change one sentence to reflect the submission – advisor notification – grade posting process.