An overview of EPrints :The University of Glasgow's Experience

• 1. An overview of EPrints : TheUniversity of Glasgow's ExperienceWilliam J NixonHead of Digital Services, University of Glasgow

2. An EPrints repository is a set of services offered toall 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 3. With thanks to Prof Les Carr 4. AboutEPrints EPrints was developed at the School of Electronics and ComputerScience, University of Southampton, UK. Open source software, freely available First released in 2001, EPrints 3 launched in 2007Current version 3.3.12 (EPrints 4 due in coming year) 400+ known archives are running EPrints worldwide. Active User CommunityEPrints WikiEPTech-Mailing ListEPrints User Group at Open Repositories 5. 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 CommunityWith thanks to Prof Les Carr 6. EPrintsCoreObjectiv Lower the barrier for depositors while improvingmetadata quality and ultimate collection valueImports, Autocompletion, Name Authority Enter once, reuse oftenRSS Feeds, CVs, Publication databases, corporatereporting Simple platform for open source contributionsTightly-managed, quality-controlled code framework,flexible plug-in architecture 7. EPrintsWebsite 8. Enlighten Home Page 9. EPRINTS WALKTHROUGH Managing depositsand Metadata Assistance 10. EPRINTS Plug-ins and the Bazaar 11. With thanks to Prof Les Carr 12. With thanks to Prof Les Carr 13. With thanks to Prof Les Carr 14. With thanks to Prof Les Carr 15. 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 partnersWith thanks to Prof Les Carr 16. 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/ 17. ContactDetails [email protected] Enlighten:http://eprints.gla.ac.uk Twitter:@williamjnixon