Example Repositories

Celebrating Our Diversity

EPrints users worldwide are configuring their repositories for many diverse requirements.

This page showcases a small sample of these repositories; the complete list is available at the Institutional Archives Registry/.

Portals
Projects
Regional
Subject-Based
Theses (see Howto: Create a Theses Repository)

Branding

The following EPrints repositories are examples of the way in which default EPrints configurations have been changed to provide branding for the institution, to extend the kinds of metadata that are collected and to provide new browsing, searching and display methods.


@rchive SIC France		E-Lis: E-prints in Library and Information Science Italy
Minority Health Archive: University of Pittsburgh USA		Glasgow ePrints Service United Kingdom
Göteborg University: School of Economics and Commercial Law Sweden		ePrints@IISc: The Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore India
LU:research: Lund University Sweden		OpenMED@NIC: National Informatics Centre, New Delhi India
Organic Eprints Denmark		PASTEL Theses: Paris Institute of Techology France
QUTePrints: Queensland University of Technology Australia		Sammelpunkt: Elektronisch archivierte Theorie Austria
UCL Eprints: University College London United Kingdom		University of Melbourne ePrints Repository Australia
ePrintsUQ: The University of Queensland Australia		UNITN-Eprints: University of Trento Italy
AMS Acta: Università di Bologna Italy		E-Prints Universidad Complutense Madrid Spain

Consortiums

The following EPrint installation is an example of a consortial approach to institutional repositories. (Another example is the London LEAP consortium, led by UCL, but that is achieved by virtual Apache servers and is not visible from the repository front pages.)


White Rose Consortium United Kingdom

Data

The following EPrint installation is an example of a data repository.


Southampton Crystal Reports United Kingdom

Journals

The following EPrint installations are examples of how a repository can be used in conjunction with a journal.


BBSPrints: Behavioral and Brain Sciences United Kingdom		Canadian Bulletin of Medical History Canada
PsycPrints: Psycoloquy United Kingdom

Multi-Language

The following EPrints installation are examples of multi-language repositories.


E-Prints Universidad Complutense Madrid Spain (Spanish, English)		Organic Eprints Denmark (English, German)
PASTEL Theses: Paris Institute of Techology France (French, English, German, Portuguese, Italian)

Political Institutions

The following EPrint installations are examples of the use of a repository as a digital library for capturing not only research but also administrative and policy documents relating to institutions.


Archive of European Integration		Policy Documentation Center Hungary

Portals

The following EPrint installation shows how a repository (of a part of an institution) fits into a larger portal.


School of Electronics and Computer Science United Kingdom

Projects

Some multi-site projects of an extended timescale (ore than 3 years, say) have a need to promote the work of their partners. (This is especially true of European "Networks of Excellence".)


AgentLink Publications Clearinghouse United Kingdom		PASCAL EPrints: Pattern Analysis, Statistical Modelling and Computational Learning United Kingdom

Regional

A repository can accommodate the needs of a geographical region. In this example, the repository serves the needs of "the Developing World".


The Bioline EPrints Archive Canada

Subject-Based

The following subject repositories are not institutionally-based.


CogPrints: Cognitive Sciences Eprint Archive United Kingdom		Digital Library of the Commons USA
PhilSci: Philosophy of Science Archive USA

Theses

The following repositories are tailor-made for theses; other repositories keep theses as an integral part of their other holdings


TEL: Thesis on Line France		Digital Theses of the University of Munich Germany