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DergiPark PDF Copies

When the DergiPark harvest copies the article PDFs, how it requests again the PDFs that DergiPark did not give at the time, and which PDFs it does not request again.

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Added in
1.3.0
Changed in
1.7.4, 1.9.1

The harvest copies the articles' PDFs only if the Copy the PDFs too option is on. While the option is off, the article page links to the original page on DergiPark (Türkiye's national journal platform), and the PDF is read on DergiPark.

Conditions for copying

  • A licence must be selected in the journal record. The copied PDFs are published under the journal's licence, and the article becomes open access.
  • Every PDF goes through the virus scan like other uploads and does not open before the scan has finished.
  • If the article already has a current full text in the catalogue, the harvest does not take a new copy.
  • PDFs are requested from DergiPark one at a time and at longer intervals than pages. The details are in DergiPark Request Intervals.

If you turned the option on after the first harvest, the earlier articles open under the journal's licence at the next harvest. The details are in The PDFs of DergiPark articles do not show on the site.

PDFs to try again

If DergiPark does not give a PDF at the time, the harvest marks the PDF to be tried again later. This happens with a 429 or 5xx response and when DergiPark does not answer at all. The result line says that the PDF could not be downloaded for now and will be tried again shortly. The PDFs to try again count shows the number of these PDFs.

  • When the run finishes, a new attempt is set up for 20 minutes later.
  • For PDFs that still cannot be received, the attempts continue at the same interval. Each PDF is tried at most 5 times.
  • A PDF that is copied later drops off the run's problem list.
  • The weekly harvest also requests again the missing copies of articles that have not changed on DergiPark.
  • When a harvest job passes 20 minutes, it leaves the remaining PDFs to the next attempt without waiting. In that case, the PDF does not lose an attempt.
  • If Copy the PDFs too is turned off, the waiting attempts are not made.

PDFs not requested again

A file that is not found on DergiPark (404), is not a PDF or is larger than 100 MB is not requested again. A PDF that could not be received in 5 attempts is not requested again either. The last warning stays in the result line. You can upload the full text of such an article by hand as described in Files and Access.

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