Open Access and Institutional Repositories with EPrints

EPrints is the most flexible platform for building high quality, high value repositories, recognised as the easiest and fastest way to set up repositories of research literature, scientific data, student theses, project reports, multimedia artefacts, teaching materials, scholarly collections, digitised records, exhibitions and performances.

Within this site you will find information and resources to make open access a reality within your own institution: open source software and support, commercial hosting, training and development services and also open access advice and information.

Latest Training: March 24-26 2010 Topics include customising your repository, adding new services and a special focus on Linked Data: How does the Semantic Web impact Institutions and Repositories? Contact EPrints Services to register.

EPrints Repository Software

EPrints open source software is a flexible platform for building high quality, high value repositories. It is recognised as the easiest and fastest way to set up repositories of research outputs of literature, scientific data, theses and reports or multimedia artefacts from collections, exhibitions and performances.

Archive Documents, Multimedia and Data
Multi-Language Support
OAI Compliant

269 known archives are running EPrints worldwide.

Total records in known archives: 519952

EPrints is developed at the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, UK.

EPrints Services

The EPrints services team provides a fee-based advice and consultancy service that can deliver a range of solutions, from initial help and guidance through to a completely managed service for an institutional repository.

We have experience with deploying repositories at all scales, ranging from large, broad-based research universities to single-subject departments, and will take time to understand your particular requirements. Our goal is always to deliver a repository that fulfils all your needs.

"moved the institutional repository forward swiftly, efficiently and successfully." The Open University

"speed of response has been phenomenal" Bournemouth University

Open Access to Research

We are creating the environment in which Open Access will become the norm for distributing research:

ROAR tracks the growth of existing OA Archives.
ROARMAP tracks the growth of institutional self-archiving policies.
ROMEO tracks journal/publisher "green" policies on author self-archiving
The OAA Bibliography tracks the studies on the OA advantage in research usage and impact.
The Self-Archiving FAQ tracks and answers questions about self-archiving.
Citebase tracks citations: a scientometric OA search engine.
The American Scientist Open Access Forum has been tracking OA progress since 1998.
News and views blogs
- Open Access Archivangelism by Stevan Harnad
- EPrints Insiders on institutional repositories, especially those built with EPrints

EPrints Preservation Support

Long term preservation of digital materials is important in a world where our outputs are increasingly only available in digital form. EPrints repository software helps you to manage and control a portfolio of local, enterprise and cloud storage services and digital preservation activities.

Find out more at our dedicated preservation site.

Report highlights building a business case for an Open Access policy

A new report launched yesterday (25 February) and written by Dr Alma Swan of the University of Southampton shows how universities can work out how much they could save on their profit and loss accounts as well as increasing their contribution to UK plc when they share their research papers through Open Access.

Poland's 1st Green OA Mandate, Planet's 145th

17/02/2010
Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics Polish Academy of Sciences
Institutional Repository
Green OA Self-Archiving Mandate

Please register your own university's mandate in ROARMAP too, to track progress and to encourage other universities to adopt mandates of their own.

Information Today highlights Open Access successes

"Until and unless universal Open Access prevails on the planet, my words are better dubbed profitless than prophetic," responds Professor Stevan Harnad, University of Southampton's impatient archivangelist, to being dubbed "A Prophet Whose Time Has Come" in Information Today's February cover story, an interview by the chronicler of the Open Access movement, Richard Poynder.

UK's 32nd Green OA Mandate, World's 144th: U. London: Royal Holloway

Royal Holloway's Open Access Publications Policy used the University of Stirling as a starting point:
"All journal articles... are to be self-archived in the University’s Digital Research Repository... Articles are to be submitted immediately upon acceptance for publication. The author's final accepted draft should be submitted."
Please register your own university's mandate in ROARMAP too, to track progress and to encourage other universities to adopt mandates of their own.

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