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Adding Supplements to the metadata in Excel and Moving them to the PDF Directory

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  • Take the licenses want to work on to the copier an put them in the top tray.
  • Press email.
  • Enter your email address.
  • Download the pdf from the email.
  • Open the PDF with Acrobat.
  • Select tools then select Organize Pages
  • Select all of the pages
  • Click Extract.
  • Check Extract as Separate Files, then click Extract.
  • Select the License folder.
  • Go to the license folder.
  • Open the first file. 
  • If no choice was made, or license wasn't signed, put in the unusable folder.Shrink to 75%.
  • Find the document in the metadata file, ensuring that both the full author name and title match.
  • If no entry matches, put the license in the "not in this load" folder.
  • Do a "Save As," and rename the individual files using the naming convention author's last name, first initial, _first word of the title (omitting articles), _OPEN Open (e,g, JonesRFindingOPENJonesRFindingOpen,pdf), or author's last name first initial,  _first word of the title (omitting articles), _LIM (JonesrFindingLIM Lim (JonesR_Finding_Lim.pdf) depending on if access is supposed to be open or limited. If there is an embargo, put the authors name, document title, and embargo length on the embargo list.
  • Find the document in the metadata file, ensuring that both the full author name and title match.
  • If no entry matches, put the license in the "not in this load" folder.
  • In License and PDF titles do match, in the metadata file, move the files from column A to the Open or Limited access column as appropriate, and add the license file name to column D (if the labels aren't staying at the top, go to view, then click normal, the click Freeze Panes and select Freeze Top Row).
  • Proofread the file name and the file name and spreadsheet to ensure that they're both the same and match.
  • If the next Sharp file is the one you just did, delete it.
  • Repeat for each file.

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