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Thanks all for your replies, much appreciated. Really interesting to hear about the alternative approaches. Sounds like the watermark type solution would be good, but perhaps not a 'must have' just yet - not whilst the standard cover sheet does most of what it needs to relatively well. Warmest wishes, Camilla -----Original Message----- From: Kevin Ashley [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 04 May 2018 12:16 To: George Macgregor; Griffiths,CB; [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Do you use cover sheets in your repository? On 04/05/18 11:28, George Macgregor wrote: >... > There is actually some evidence that cover pages are a bad thing, There is indeed. This paper (Cover Sheets Considered Harmful - Tonkin, Taylor & Tourte) is the clearest I'm aware of and is worth reading. It's short & well-written. https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/publications/cover-sheets-considered-harmful There are links on that page both to the text in Bath's repository & to the open-access publication itself. -- Kevin Ashley. Director, Digital Curation Centre http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ E: [log in to unmask] @kevingashley | P: DCC, Argyle Hse (F West), T: +44 131 651 3823/1239 (helpdesk) | Lady Lawson St, M: +44 7817 402 498 | Edinburgh EH3 9DR, Scotland