Question by : Article management system?
I need a software that is online that i can host. It needs to be able to provide members with my articles for free. I need them to be logged in and track every time a logged in users uses my article. The article can’t be checked out to only one user so a library management system will not work. If you know of a software that has the ability to do the above then please let me know. If there is no open source project do you know of a script that is already made for this task or is it time for me to start building one since i am a programmer.
We are letting users take our articles for there website and magazines.
By checking out i mean that one user has taken the article for there magazine or website but i still want others to have access to it for there magazines or website. So a simple library program would not suffice.
Best answer:
Answer by Adarsh K
Parts of your question are quite confusing.
1. When you say you want to know when they use your article – does that mean read it? Or does use have some other eaning
2. You said you don’t want it checked out, so do you mean you don’t want them to be able to save it locally?
Its too confusing, anyway something like this ?
http://www.mendeley.com/..
Edit 2:
Oh you want a content leasing system. So basically they are leasing your article from your site. Oh the logistics behind that are horrible. So you basically want a system where people can lease your article and you want to know where those articles are basically used. Yet allow all users to still be able to see it in other places.
The issue I see will crop up, I don’t think anyone would take the full article, Its more of an all or none game. If they take the article they would rather have exclusivity over it, not share it. I understand you just want to track your working among sites, that’s quite fine.
Im running the quandry in my head, but as far as I know, there is no article leasing / tracking system which was ever succesful. Sorry
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