1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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, CVs, Publication databases, corporate reporting Simple platform for open source contributions –Tightly-managed, quality-controlled code framework, flexible plug-in architecture

5. EPrints Website

6. EPrints Demo Server

7. Enlighten Home Page

8. EPRINTS WALKTHROUGH – Search, Browse and Export

9. Advanced Search

10. Search Results

11. Export items

12. EPrints Record (with document preview)

13. Range of Browse Views

14. EPRINTS WALKTHROUGH – Managing deposits and Metadata Assistance

15. Manage Deposits

16. Range of Deposit Types (and metadata)

17. Title duplicate checking

18. Author look-up

19. DOI Import

20. Import results

21. EPRINTS WALKTHROUGH Administration (via the web)

22. Admin options - Tabs

23. View Configuration

24. EPRINTS – Notable Sites

25. Departmental Repository: ECS Southampton

26. Project Repository (and Multimedia)

27. Data Repository: eCrystals

28. Collections Repository: The Linean Society

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

30. EPRINTS – Plug-ins, Bazaar and 3.3

31. EPrints Files

32. EPrints Bazaar

33. Find Out More EPrints Software http://www.eprints.org/software/ http://www.eprints.org/software/ EPrints Demo Server http://demoprints.eprints.org/ http://demoprints.eprints.org/ EPrints Wiki and Downloads http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Main_Page http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Main_Page Register of Open Access Repositories http://roar.eprints.org http://roar.eprints.org OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ http://www.opendoar.org/

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