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• "Access" step: This step allows users to (optionally) modify access rights or set an embargo during the deposit of an Item. For more information on this step, and Embargo options in general, please see the Embargo documentation.
• "CC License" step: This step allows users to (optionally) assign a Creative Commons license to a particular Item. Please see the Configuring Creative Commons License section of the Configuration documentation for more details.
• "Initial Questions" step: This step asks users a simple set of "initial questions" which help to determine which metadata fields are displayed in the "Describe" step (see above).  These initial questions include:
  • Multiple Titles: The item has more than one title, e.g. a translated title  (If selected, then users will be asked for an alternative title in the Describe step)
    

  • Published Before: The item has been published or publicly distributed before (If selected, then users will be asked for a publication date and publisher in the Describe step).
    

    Warning
    title Initial Questions will auto-assign a publication date when "Published Before" is unselected
    Please note, if you enable Initial Questions, and your users do NOT select "Published Before" option, then DSpace will auto-assign a publication date (dc.date.issued) to that particular Item. It may be entirely accurate for some types of content (e.g. for gray literature or even theses/dissertations) to auto-assign this publication date. However, if the Item actually was published in some other location, this will result in an incorrect publication date being reported by DSpace.  This tendency for an incorrect publication date has been reported by Google Scholar to DSpace developers (see: DS-1481), which is why the "Initial Questions" are now disabled by default.

Understanding the Submission Configuration File

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