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As an eventful 2016 draws to a close, we at EPrints HQ would like to wish the entire EPrints community  a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! This has been another busy year for our EPrints Services team with lots of activity around repositories for Impact, Research data, Education and of course Publications.  The following are just a few of the activity areas we have been working on: REF Compliance Checker plugin Developed and released by Jisc in January of this year, this plugin for EPrints provides a straightforward means by which you can check whether an article or conference proceeding in your EPrints repository isRead More →

openaccessweek2016

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As part of Open Access Week 2016, here at EPrints HQ we are pleased to be able to share the following updates about our work to continue supporting the open access, open education and open data communities.  Come back for further updates as the week progresses. *NEW* EPrints 3.4 Impact flavour coming soon We are pleased to announce that through a project with the University of Glasgow, we are currently in the process of creating a new flavour compatible with EPrints 3.4 to create a repository optimised for capturing Impact data.  This solution will allow researchers to capture impact related data and allow institutions to gainRead More →

Origins of EdShare - Kelly Terrell

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Last week the annual conference for the Association for Learning Technology (ALT) took place at the University of Warwick hosting over 400 delegates at the Arts Centre on the main campus. The conference followed a theme of Connect, Collaborate, Create with a diverse range of session topics including copyright policies, open practices, VLEs, collaboration in the creation of resources and a variety of research based activities. Of particular interest to us in EPrints is the activities in relation to open education and in particular how the community is continuing to engage with the sharing and collaboration of open education resources.  This would appear to be anRead More →

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The University of Warwick will be hosting the Association for Learning Technology Annual Conference this year from September 6th – 8th and we are pleased to announce that Kelly Terrell, EPrints Open Education Lead will be attending as a presenter. Kelly will be presenting on Wednesday 7th September at 10.25am (session details can be found here) to share the findings from her small scale scoping study on discoverability strategies of open educational resources conducted as part of her MSc in Digital Education. This work combined with working with members of the EPrints community is leading an exciting phase of enhancements to our offering EdShare – the EPrintsRead More →

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The 11th International Conference of Repositories is fast approaching and once again our representatives from EPrints will be there. On Tuesday 14th June Les Carr, Director of EPrints, will be on the ‘Repository Rodeo‘ panel immediately after the opening keynote.  Les will also be opening the EPrints Interest Group track in the afternoon discussing EPrints 3.4. Kelly Terrell, EPrints Open Education Lead, will immediately follow Les to talk about ‘Repositories for open education: a reflection and look forward for EPrints‘. We will also have a poster on display during the conference on the upcoming EPrints 3.4 release. As well as our team, there is also a greatRead More →

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Building upon the success of the educational content sharing platform EdShare from the University of Southampton, we are pleased to bring you EPrints for Open Education on our latest EPrints core. Providing you with a flexible platform to support your engagement with open education practices. Whether for your school, project, collaborative network, institution or organisation and whether you intend to share your resources locally, regionally or world-wide our EdShare solution can be customised to meet your needs, allowing you to host, manage, share and collaborate on teaching and learning resources in one place. Over the past year EPrints HQ has been busy migrating the original EdShare developed from the EdSpace andRead More →

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It’s time to bridge the divide between digital learning spaces and practices In November 2014, as part of the Institute for Learning, Innovation and Development Inaugural conference we opened informal discussions to highlight an opportunity to join us on a journey to explore and deliver a new future for open education using EPrints. We hope to enhance and extend the existing platform to provide a truly community-based solution which goes beyond the current method of simply managing and delivering content. A solution which embraces the ethos of openness and challenges current practices to present opportunities to a global community of learners and experts to engage with our institutionsRead More →