DSpace-API contains scripts JAVA that perform maintenance operation or batch manipulation of the platform content.

They can be executed from the installation folder /bin using the special dspace command

The dspace command accepts as parameter the name of the script to execute as configured in the config/launcher.xml file.

The following features are based on script that should be run periodically via CRONTAB

• Bibliometrics, see

  • Scopus Metrics
  • H-Index Metrics
  • WOS (Web of Science) Metrics

• Usage data as metrics, see Usage statistics data generators

• Automatic retrieval of Scopus Publication, see Scanning Scopus for additional publications in profiles

• Automatic retrieval of Web of Science Publication, see Scanning WOS (Web of Science) for additional publications in profiles

• ORCID Push, see ORCID Synchronization

The above features are in addition to the DSpace features

• the e-mail subscription feature that alerts users of new items being deposited;

• the 'media filter' tool, that generates thumbnails of images and extracts the full-text of documents for indexing;

• the 'checksum checker' that tests the bitstreams in your repository for corruption;

• the curation system queueing feature, which allows administrators to "queue" tasks (to run at a later time) from the Admin UI;

• and the registration of DOIs using DataCite as registration agency.

that require periodic execution via CRONTAB, please be sure to review also the DSpace dedicated documentation page Scheduled Tasks via Cron