EPrints is a free and open-source software package for building open access repositories that are compliant with the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). It shares many of the features commonly seen in document management systems, but is primarily used for institutional repositories and scientific journals.[2] EPrints has been developed at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science and released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.[3]
| Developer(s) | University of Southampton |
|---|---|
| Stable release | |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Perl |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Institutional repository software |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | eprints.org |
The EPrints software is not to be confused with "Eprints" (or "e-prints"), which are preprints (before peer review) and postprints (after peer review), of research journal articles (eprints = preprints + postprints).
History
editEPrints was created in 2000[4] as a direct outcome of the 1999 Santa Fe meeting[5] that launched what eventually became the OAI-PMH.
The EPrints software was enthusiastically received[6] and became the first and one of the most widely used[7] free open access, institutional repository software, and it has since inspired the development of other software that fulfil a similar purpose,[8] notably DSpace.
Version 3 of the software was officially released on 24 January 2007 at the Open Repositories 2007 Conference[9] and was described by its developers as "a major leap forward in functionality, giving even more control and flexibility to repository managers, depositors, researchers and technical administrators".[10]
Technology
editEPrints is a Web and command-line application based on the LAMP architecture (but is written in Perl rather than PHP). It has been successfully run under Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X.[11] A version for Microsoft Windows was released 17 May 2010.[12]
Version 3 of the software introduced a (Perl-based) plugin architecture for importing and exporting data, converting objects (for search engine indexing) and user interface widgets.[13]
Configuring an EPrints repository involves modifying configuration files written in Perl or XML. The appearance of a repository is controlled by HTML templates, CSS stylesheets and inline images. While EPrints is shipped with an English translation it has been translated to other languages through (redistributable) language-specific XML phrase files. Existing translations include Bulgarian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Ukrainian.[14]
References
edit- ^ "Releases - eprints/eprints3.4". github.com. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
- ^ "Using EPrints v3 plugins to produce an OA journal". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Tansley, R. & Harnad, S. (2000) Archived 28 July 2017 at the Wayback Machine Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives D-Lib Magazine 6 (10)
- ^ "D-Lib -- in Brief (October 2000)". Archived from the original on 28 July 2017. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
- ^ "Open Archives Initiative: Meeting History". Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
- ^ Sponsler, Ed and Van de Velde, Eric F. (2001) Archived 10 January 2020 at the Wayback Machine Eprints.org Software: a Review. SPARC E-News. August–September 2001
- ^ "ROAR Software Version Listing". Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
- ^ "Welcome to the Registry of Open Access Repositories - Registry of Open Access Repositories". Archived from the original on 31 May 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
- ^ "Open repositories". Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
- ^ "Index of /Software/V3". Archived from the original on 22 November 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.
- ^ "Tech. Documentation - Introduction". www.eprints.org. Archived from the original on 9 November 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
- ^ "ePrints 3.2.1 - ePrints Files". Archived from the original on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2010.
- ^ "Preservation Support". wiki.eprints.org. Archived from the original on 7 March 2023. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ "Browse by Type - ePrints Files". Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2007.