Use Cases

Use Cases

Direct submission

• Principal Investigator (PI) users can review their grants and create submissions to designated repositories based on applicable policies.

• A PI can see past submissions made to PubMed Central (PMC).

• A submitter can create a submission that satisfies one or more grants' open access policies (PASS will determine which open access policies apply to a grant).

• A submitter can create one submission that the system will deposit into an institutional repository and/or PubMed Central (potential support for more repositories in the future).

Proxy submission

• As an authenticated user of PASS, I want to be able to prepare a submission on behalf of someone else.

• As an authenticated user of PASS, I want to be able to approve and submit submissions that were created on my behalf.

Core features

As a user, I can:

• Login with my institutional ID.

• See if I have submissions that need review on my dashboard.

• View my grants.

• View my submissions made through PASS.

• View my submissions that I made to PMC in the past.

• Associate a publication to a new submission by its DOI or manually enter its name and journal during the submission process.

• Search for my publications journal, if entering its information manually during the submission process.

• Create a submission on behalf of a grant PI.

• Create a submission associated with one or more of my grants.

• See all public / open access policies that apply to the grants associated with my submission during the submission process.

• See the repositories during the submission process that the system will deposit into.

• Enter metadata required by all target repositories during the submission process.

• Add the manuscript file and zero or more supporting files to the submission during the submission process.

• See the submissions status after I complete the submission.

• See identifiers assigned to a successful submission by a repository.