Content integrity verification
Santosh Patnaik
Saturday, 08 November 2008 05:27 UTC
The article referenced below made me wonder if Nature Precedings plans to incorporate such a system to ensure content integrity. Considering the digital-only nature of the journal and its ever-increasing size, this might be important.
- Haber, et al. A content integrity service for digital repositories. HP Tech Reports
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Hi Santosh,
This is an interesting suggestion. We currently don’t have a content integrity check for the PDFs in place, however, we could consider (as a first step) making MD5 hashes of the submitted PDFs available through the site for comparison.
Are authors concerned about the integrity of their manuscripts? Since the CC license allows the creation of derivative works (with citation), is there a need for readers to be able to verify that a given copy matches the originally uploaded copy?
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