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: Sept 1-3 2009 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.

109 Open Access Mandates and Growing

24/11/2009
Latest Green Open Access Mandates in ROARMAP:
Oberlin College (institutional)
University of Kansas (institutional total now 51)
Brigham Young University 1, 2 (departmental total now 16)
Institutional + Departmental + Funder: 109
University of Central Florida (thesis total now 37)
All mandates: 146 adopted (15 more proposed)

THE article highlights ECS role in Open Access

‘It is only through Open Access that research can be used, applied and built upon by all its intended users, rather than only those whose institutions can afford to subscribe to the journal in which it happens to be published’, says ECS Professor Stevan Harnad, commenting on a major article in today’s Times Higher Education.

100th University mandate announced in international Open Access Week

Last week’s international celebration of Open Access was given added momentum by the announcement of the world’s 100th Open Access Mandate, from the University of Salford, UK.

99th - 101st OA Mandates registered in ROARMAP

19/10/2009
With mandates 99-101 registered in ROARMAP, Green OA Self-Archiving Mandates have now passed the 100 mark -- seven years after they began, in 2002, with the very first one (University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science). The pace has at last picked up, especially since Harvard's mandate(s) last year, since which the number has doubled:
#99 (funder, Sweden) Swedish Research Council
#100 (institution, UK) University of Salford
#101 (institution, US) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
We will be celebrating the Salford mandate (because it is a milestone, the 100th) but stay tuned as there are rumors several more mandates will be announced during next week's Open Access Week.
If your institution or funder has one that is not yet registered in ROARMAP, please do register it now!

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