EPrints -Introducing EPrints 3 Software

William J NixonDigital Library Development Manager, University of Glasgow

With many thanks to Les Carr and the EPrints Team

EPrints

An EPrints repository is a set of services offered to all the members of an institution for open access, preservation, scholarly collections, teaching, e-learning, e-publishing, data sharing, collaboration, administrative reporting, research management, publicity, marketing, digital profile enhancement, research assessment

About EPrints

• EPrints was developed at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.

• Open source software, freely available• First released in 2001, EPrints 3 launched in 2007

– Current version 3.2.7 (EPrints 3.3 coming soon)

• Perl and Linux (Windows)• OAI and Dublin Core• 400+ known archives are running EPrints worldwide.• Active User Community

– EPrints Wiki

– EPTech-Mailing List

EPrints Core Objectives

• Lower the barrier for depositors while improving metadata quality and ultimate collection value– Imports, Autocompletion, Name Authority

• Enter once, reuse often– RSS Feeds, CV’s, Publication databases,

corporate reporting

• Simple platform for open source contributions– Tightly-managed, quality-controlled code

framework, flexible plug-in architecture

EPrints Website

EPrints Demo Server

Enlighten Home Page

EPRINTS WALKTHROUGH –Search, Browse and Export

Advanced Search

Search Results

Export items

EPrints Record (with document preview)

Range of Browse Views

EPRINTS WALKTHROUGH –Managing depositsand Metadata Assistance

Manage Deposits

Range of Deposit Types (and metadata)

Title duplicate checking

Author look-up

DOI Import

Import results

EPRINTS WALKTHROUGHAdministration (via the web)

Admin options - Tabs

View Configuration

EPRINTS –Notable Sites

Departmental Repository: ECS Southampton

Project Repository (and Multimedia)

Data Repository: eCrystals

Collections Repository: The Linean Society

Notable EPrints Repositories

• http://eprints.lse.ac.uk (institutional)• http://eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk (departmental)• http://archive.serpentproject.com (project)• http://nora.nerc.ac.uk (funders)• http://ecrystals.chem.soton.ac.uk (data)• http://www.linnean-online.org (collection)

Source: EPrints Biodiversity

EPRINTS –Plug-ins, Bazaar and 3.3

EPrints Files

EPrints Bazaar

Find Out More

• EPrints Softwarehttp://www.eprints.org/software/

• EPrints Demo Serverhttp://demoprints.eprints.org/

• EPrints Wiki and Downloadshttp://wiki.eprints.org/w/Main_Page

• Register of Open Access Repositorieshttp://roar.eprints.org

• OpenDOARhttp://www.opendoar.org/

Contact Details

• E-mailWilliam.Nixon@glasgow.ac.uk

• Enlighten:http://eprints.gla.ac.uk

• Twitter:@williamjnixon