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.

Training Latest: The collected material from EPrints training courses is now available in the EPrints Training Library.

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.

Mandates 86-90: Harvard, Roehampton, Geneva, IES, Kansas + 29 Thesis

28/06/2009
Three new institutional and faculty mandates plus one new funder mandate brings it to 90 worldwide: Harvard School of Education, Roehampton University, Université de Genève, US Institute of Education Sciences (IES) and University of Kansas.
Also, the call for registering thesis mandates in ROARMAP has already resulted in the registration of 29 thesis mandates (bringing total mandates now to 119), but please register your mandate too: This is a retrospective call, as there have been open access thesis deposit mandates for several years not and ROARMAP has only now begun registering them alongside refereed research deposit mandates.
And as if that weren't enough: the US omnibus Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA) to extend Green OA mandates to all the major US research funders has been re-introduced in Congress.

Norway's 2nd Green Open Access Self-Archiving Mandate; Planet's 85th

08/06/2009
ROARMAP: full list of institutions

NORWAY institutional-mandate University of Bergen

Institution's OA Eprint Archives: Bergen Open Research Archive (BORA) [growth data]

Institution's OA Self-Archiving Policy: ID/OA-policy

UK still leads in Open Access, reports ECS, but not for long

With the announcement today (Wednesday 3 June) that University College London has just adopted the UK's 22nd (and the world's 84th) mandate to make all of its research output Open Access (by depositing it in UCL's Institutional Repository, UCL Eprints), it is clear that the United Kingdom continues to lead the world in Open Access.

EPrints helps create world's first repository for the visual arts

A repository which will make it possible for colleges and individuals in the arts to store and present their work in a creative way will be unveiled tomorrow (Wednesday 3 June) at the Whitechapel Gallery, London.

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