EPrints Introducing EPrints 3 Software William J Nixon

EPrints Introducing EPrints 3 Software William J Nixon Digital 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, epublishing, 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 deposits and Metadata Assistance

Manage Deposits

Range of Deposit Types (and metadata)

Title duplicate checking

Author look-up

DOI Import

Import results

EPRINTS WALKTHROUGH Administration (via the web)

Admin options - Tabs

View Configuration

EPRINTS – Notable Sites

Departmental Repository: ECS Southampton

Project Repository (and Multimedia)

Data Repository: e. Crystals

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 Software http: //www. eprints. org/software/ • EPrints Demo Server http: //demoprints. eprints. org/ • EPrints Wiki and Downloads http: //wiki. eprints. org/w/Main_Page • Register of Open Access Repositories http: //roar. eprints. org • Open. DOAR http: //www. opendoar. org/

Contact Details • E-mail William. Nixon@glasgow. ac. uk • Enlighten: http: //eprints. gla. ac. uk • Twitter: @williamjnixon