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In established publications, the DOI is the persistent identifier to find the paper where ever its is located on the Internet. This DOI is always used together with the citation in Pangaea (e.g. . But still several papers, reports and periodicals, mainly from the grey literature do not use this system and often are just linked to a web site. According to experience those links are not stable on the long-term view and should not be used in any referencing in Pangaea.

The AWI is operating ePIC as a repository for publications, providing simple handles with each citation and linked files. (A DOI is one type of handle). In case a reference in Pangaea should be linked to its full text, ePIC might be used as the repository for the paper and the handle can be entered in the URI-field of Pangaeas reference table.

ePIC allows the upload of pdf-files. If a paper does not exist in electronic form, it should be scanned (300 dpi) and converted to text by OCR (optical character recognition). Following the standards for electronic archiving, the pdf should be saved as PDF/A which is the ISO-19005-1 Electronic document file format for long-term preservation. Recent versions of Adobe Acrobat are able to store documents in PDF/A.

The file is uploaded to ePIC by using the functionality New documentations. With the following information to be entered:
 * Author/editor names (define with Author-Number the required fields)
 * Year
 * Title
 * Source (periodical, institute etc)

After sending the information to the database, a requester for the upload of the pdf will appear.

If more than 25 publications in one step should be uploaded, the required citations can be provided in a table together with the pdf-filenames and -files and uploaded via a scribt by the ePIC master.

Access to ePIC with the required user profile Librarian have Lydia Gerullis and Hannes Grobe.

Example:
 * Each citation has a handle, pointing to its splash page in ePIC:
 * The handle extended by *.d001 will open directly the linked pdf-file: . This is the one which should be added to the reference in Pangaea e.g..