EPRINTS 3.2

A Distilled Guide to

What is EPrints For?

EPrints offers a safe, open and useful

place to store, share and manage

material in the pursuit of research and

educational agendas.

administrative reporting, collaboration, data sharing,

digital profile enhancement , e-learning, e-publishing, e-research, marketing, open access, preservation, publicity, research assessment, research management, scholarly collections

Design Aims

Object-based Data Model

Items stored in an EPrints repository are objects with their own persistent URLs e.g. eprints, documents, files, users,

projects, institutions

ExtensibleData

Model

aPreviewOf

anEditableVersionOf

Objects have their ownextensible metadataworkflows, renderersimporters, exportersand relationships with other objects

managerOf

supportingProject

employeeOf

Extending Functionality

A variety of convenient programming interfaces REST API for Web applications EPrints Toolbox for reporting EPrints API for repository plugins

Flexible APIs

Cloud to Desktop Storage

Data can be stored on multiple storage services Local disk, SAN, NAS,

Honeycomb, Cloud Researchers can mount

repository objects as a networked filesystem

Service usage and preservation risks can be monitored and analysed.

Intelligent Storage

Microsoft Office Support

Microsoft Office “Save As…” direct repository deposit Catalogue of media components stored as related

documents

Embedded metadata added to the eprint record

Desktop User

Support

Usage & Impact Framework

Citation harvesting and analysis using data

from ISI Web of Science

and Google Scholar

Research Reporting

Statistics & charts displayed for downloads, citation averages, h-index etc

Search results ranked by citation count

Research Information Systems

A repository needs to interoperate with management information systems

Create reports based on research project activities as well asresearch outputs

EPrints will supportCERIF standard forCurrent ResearchInformation Systems

Research Informatio

n

An EPrints repository is

a valuable part of the researcher’s information environment directly integrating with the research desktop offering sustainable storage and open access

a competent and mature component of the institution’s information environment providing management and curation support for

core business research data leveraging information about research outputs

to inform management strategy

Acknowledgements Projects contributing v3.2 functionality

JISC Ready for REF JISC KeepIt! JISC SWORD Microsoft Word+SWORD

v3.2 currently in alpha release (May 2009). Public beta release expected 2009Q4