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    A list of resources for OA cataloging:

• For checking MIT author and affiliation metadata if the name doesn’t appear using the author lookup:

MIT People Directory: http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/people.html

• For determining the authorized form of MIT corporate names or the names of sponsors:

• OCLC Connexion: http://www.oclc.org/connexion/

• LC Name Authority File: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html

• Occasionally there is a new DLC that does not have an authorized form and one will need to be created using RDA guidelines (Chapter 11, Section 2): http://access.rdatoolkit.org/.

• For editing titles and abstracts to include symbols, special characters and scientific notation:

• FileFormat.Info: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/index.htm

• For finding publication ISSNs or ISBNs:

• OCLC Connexion: http://www.oclc.org/connexion/

• WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/ 

• For  formatting  MLA citations:

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

 After signing in go to the My Account menu on the far right and click on Submissions.

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By clicking Submissions, the button should redirect to the Submissions & Workflow tasks page.

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Scroll down in the queue until you find an item that is categorized in the “Final edit/approve step.” Check the box(es) for the item(s) you want to catalog and click “Take selected tasks”

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If you selected just one item you will be taken to the item page where you can see a basic metadata overview and download a file version of the article (usually it is the author’s manuscript version submitted to the collection). On the same page you will see a menu for actions you can take.

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There are five actions to choose from:

• Approve item: Clicking this button will submit the item and corresponding metadata into the Open Access Collection in DSpace making it live (This is usually the final step in the cataloging process unless it is possibly a duplicate).

• Reject item: Clicking this button will reject the item and delete it from the task pool. See section 3 for instructions on how to reject an item.

• Edit metadata: Clicking this button will take you through a series of pages where you can import metadata, make any necessary edits and verify the accuracy of the metadata.

• Send to Acquisitions/Licensing: If there is missing acquisition or licensing information, send the item back to the Acquisitions/Licensing step. 

• Cancel: Clicking this button will put the item into your own personal task queue but will not return it to the main task pool. This is useful if you need to return to an item at a later time, need to do more research, or need to ask a question about a given item.