an overview of eprints :the university of glasgow's experience
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An overview of EPrints : The University of Glasgow's Experience
William J NixonHead of Digital Services, University of Glasgow
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
With thanks to Prof Les Carr
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 3.3.12 (EPrints 4 due in coming year)
• 400+ known archives are running EPrints worldwide.
• Active User Community–EPrints Wiki
–EPTech-Mailing List
–EPrints User Group at Open Repositories
• What are the EPrints Services team doing?
• – Hosting about 70 repositories
• – Supporting Open Access repositories for about 100 institutions
• • UK, France, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Australia, South Africa, US,Canada
• – Maintaining the core software
• – Developing new versions
• Why are they doing it?
• – Not for profit
• – To support the Open Access agenda
• – To build up and support the Repository Community
With thanks to Prof Les Carr
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
Enlighten Home Page
EPRINTS WALKTHROUGH –Managing deposits
and Metadata Assistance
EPRINTS –Plug-ins and the Bazaar
With thanks to Prof Les Carr
With thanks to Prof Les Carr
With thanks to Prof Les Carr
With thanks to Prof Les Carr
• Looking Ahead to Other Services and Systems• – IRUS-UK: released on Bazaar
• – Publications Router: protocol native to EPrints (SWORD) + importers onBazaar
• – ORCID: proof of concept released on Bazaar
• – WoK/Scopus imports: in EPrints core
• – Open Access end-to-end project: EPrints Services are partners
With thanks to Prof Les Carr
• 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/
