Contribute to the DSpace Development Fund

The newly established DSpace Development Fund supports the development of new features prioritized by DSpace Governance. For a list of planned features see the fund wiki page.

Title (Goal) Properly configured URLs are clickable (hot link) in all metadata fields.
Primary ActorEnd User | Administrator
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Story (A paragraph or two describing what happens)

Story 1. Repository A includes citations, with links, to published versions of resources. Donatella is interested in viewing the published version of an article. She clicks on the supplied URL in the citation metadata field and that resource opens in a new tab.

Story 2. Following RDA cataloging rules, Repository A includes information about related resources in its records. The record for a manual includes a reference to a book of exercises that is freely available on another website. When Tom on the URL in the dc.relation field the URL is followed and the book of exercises is opened in a new tab.