The document proposes an "Email Deposit" solution to streamline self-submission of works to repositories by automating ingestion of metadata from third-party sources and sending authors an email with a link to attach full-text files, rather than requiring manual submission through web forms. This would reduce paperwork and barriers by retrieving metadata like author information and bibliographic data from databases and asking authors to complete submissions by attaching files to emailed requests linked to automatically generated workspace items.

1. Kimberly Chapman
Bram Luyten Marianne Parkhill
Rastislav Hudak
Team Low Friction Submission

2. The mother of all problems
Self submission still requires too much manual effort
Repositories stay empty
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3. The Solution: Email Deposit
Assumption #1
we have reliable author identification: ORCID or institution staff registry
Assumption #2
we retrieve relatively good metadata in 3rd party sources: Pubmed,
Arxiv, Crossref, Mendeley, ScienceDirect ...
Feature #1
After ingesting metadata automatically into a new workspace item, an
email goes out to the identified author to ask for the file
Feature #2
After automatic processing, the attached file gets added to the
submission and the item can go into workflow (or straight into the
repo).

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