On Tue, Apr 07, 2026 at 09:05:39PM +0000, 'Victoria Eke' via DSpace Technical Support wrote: > I am working with a student who is concerned about public access to their > forthcoming thesis. We are looking at options to have the metadata publicly > available (author name, title, abstract), but to restrict access to the > bitstream. The embargo option, from what I can tell, is limited to 4 years, > so that will not work. > > Any suggestions or guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
It is always helpful to include the DSpace version. DSpace has had two very different implementations of embargo. The newer one (which is no longer very new) should be able to do what you want. The metadata for an item are exposed according to the policy records on the Item; the content is controlled by policy records on the Bitstreams. So you want to have a policy granting Read to Anonymous on the Item, and to make certain that there is *not* such a policy on any Bitstream which is to be embargoed. Policies always grant access. If no policies of an Item or Bitstream currently apply, only members of Administrators have access (because policy checking is always skipped for members of that group). An embargo, in the typical publication sense of making content unavailable until a specific date, can be achieved for an embargoed Bitstream by granting Read on the Bitstream to Anonymous *with a starting date*. The policy will not take effect until the starting date. See discussion of access control here: https://wiki.lyrasis.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=379126414 -- Mark H. Wood Lead Technology Analyst University Library Indiana University Indianapolis 755 W. Michigan Street Indianapolis, IN 46202 317-274-0749 library.indianapolis.iu.edu ORCiD: 0000-0002-9558-3768 -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://lyrasis.org/code-of-conduct/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/adaY3OPFa35V3MeV%40iu.edu.
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