| Developer(s) | University of Southampton |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.4.6 / 2024-08-24[±] |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Perl |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Type | Institutional repository software |
| License | GPL-3.0-or-later |
| Website | eprints.org |
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. 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.
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
EPrints was created in 2000 as a direct outcome of the 1999 Santa Fe meeting that launched what eventually became the OAI-PMH.
The EPrints software was enthusiastically received and became the first and one of the most widely used free open access, institutional repository software, and it has since inspired the development of other software that fulfil a similar purpose, notably DSpace.
Version 3 of the software was officially released on 24 January 2007 at the Open Repositories 2007 Conference 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".
Technology
EPrints 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. A version for Microsoft Windows was released 17 May 2010.
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.
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.
References
- "Releases - eprints/eprints3.4". github.com. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
- "Using EPrints v3 plugins to produce an OA journal". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 22 December 2023.
- ^ Tansley, Robert; Harnad, Stevan (October 2000). "Eprints.org Software for Creating Institutional and Individual Open Archives". D-Lib Magazine (In Brief). Vol. 10, no. 6. doi:10.1045/october2000-inbrief. ISSN 1082-9873. Archived from the original on 27 September 2024. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
- "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.