hiding collections and sub collections in DSpace?

Question

I'm using the dspace 5.5 in my repository. And I did a content restriction by restriction policy for some items to anonymous users. But when I do a search, it is displayed collections and sub-collections of restricted items. But when I access these collections the content is hidden. But I wanted you to hide all both the collections and sub-collections and bitstreams for anonymous users. Could someone suggest me some kind of setup?

Answer 1

I'm going to assume you use Discovery for search, it's the default in DSpace 5.

What are the authorisation policies of the collections/communities that hold hidden items? If you make the collections/communities non-public (=no READ permission for the ANONYMOUS group), I believe this will be reflected in the search results when Access rights awareness is turned on (which is the default). That is, they will be shown in search results when you're logged in as a user with READ access to the collections, but not otherwise.

You could also switch off having collections/communities included in search results altogether. There's a commented-out example in the Discovery config file (link goes to 5.x version on github) that allows you to do that, see also the DSpace documentation on Discovery:

<property name="defaultFilterQueries">
  <list>
    <!--Only find items-->
    <value>search.resourcetype:2</value>
  </list>
</property>

Answer 2

If you restrict a collection or community, DSpace will continue to provide a link to the collection or community. When a user attempts to access the collection/community, they will asked to authenticate.

If you are using XMLUI, you can restrict the listing in your stylesheet.

<xsl:template 
    match="dri:reference[@url='/metadata/handle/10822/xxxxxx/mets.xml']"
    mode="summaryList"/>

It is not elegant, but it works.