Archiving

Völkerrechtsblog cooperates with the Specialized Information Service (FID) for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research (intRecht) to ensure the long-term archiving of articles published on the blog. All articles receive an individual Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and are indexed using a legal subject classification system. They are available as full-text searches and can be found via central academic search engines.

This Open Access repository was established by the German Research Foundation at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin to support members of law faculties and academic institutions through demand-driven services and infrastructure. Making blog contributions available through international library catalogues not only enhances the academic visibility of content published outside traditional legal publication channels, but also significantly extends its reach. Thanks to DOI assignment, this reach can additionally be traced across the social web using alternative bibliometric indicators.

The Gemeinsame Bibliotheksverbund is responsible for the system architecture and technical operation of intRechtDok. The tools used for content import and DOI registration rely on the REST interface of WordPress, the world’s most widely used blogging platform, as well as on the collaboratively developed open-source framework MyCoRe, which forms the basis of the intRechtDok Open Access repository. The intRecht team regularly reviews automatically imported metadata and full texts for completeness and formal consistency. This process concludes with the assignment of a DOI via the DataCite registration consortium, which is simultaneously written into a predefined field within the metadata schema of the respective academic blog.

If you are interested in ensuring library verification, long-term archiving, and permanent digital citability for the content of your WordPress-based academic blog, the software developed jointly by the participating partners is available for free reuse under the GNU General Public License on the GitHub pages of the Gemeinsame Bibliotheksverbund. A prerequisite for using this solution is cooperation with an institutional or disciplinary Open Access repository based on MyCoRe, such as intRechtDok, which is available free of charge to all legal academic blogs. In this case, the Specialized Information Service for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research will be pleased to provide further information.

Software code

https://github.com/gbv/wordpress-importer-service

https://github.com/gbv/wordpress-importer-gui