A harvested thesis stays a draft

A harvested thesis that does not pass the catalogue's publishing checks stays a draft. You find the reason in two places. The run's problem list says which check the thesis did not pass. In the Transfer report (CSV) file, the thesis's status column says draft and its note column gives the code of the reason. Follow the section below that matches the code.

A thesis that stays a draft is tried again when it changes in the repository or at the next full harvest.

The licence is not known

If the code is open_needs_licence, the thesis is open access, but the licence the repository names is not in the catalogue's licence list. The thesis harvest adds the Creative Commons licences a repository names to the list by itself. This code comes up with a licence address that is not Creative Commons. Check the licence address in the repository. If it is wrong, have the repository's administrator correct it. If it is right, contact your system administrator.

The author or the year is missing

If the code is author_required, the record in the repository has no author. If the code is year_required, the record has no date for the thesis. Add it to the record in the repository. As the record changed in the repository, the thesis is tried again at the next sync.

An editor unpublished the thesis

If the note column says taken_down, the thesis was published once and an editor unpublished it. The thesis harvest does not publish again a thesis an editor took down. To publish it again, use the publish button of its record form.

The thesis was removed from the repository

If the status column says removed, the thesis went back to draft because it was removed from the repository. deleted in the note column means the repository reported that it deleted the thesis, and missing means the thesis was not on the repository's list in a removal check. If the repository lists the thesis again, it comes back at the next sync.