Introducing EPrints 3

How do you build on the world's most popular repository software? Keep innovating. As the first free professional software platform for building high quality OAI-compliant repositories, EPrints is already established as the easiest and fastest way to set up repositories of open access research literature, scientific data, theses, reports and multimedia. EPrints 3 is a major leap forward in functionality, giving even more control and flexibility to repository managers, depositors, researchers and technical administrators.

EPrints 3 is "a significant milestone towards ideal repository software". Report by Peter Millington and William J. Nixon, Ariadne, issue 50, January 2007

Try out the new features of EPrints 3 online with our demonstration repository or see a slideshow PDF of the features of the software.

Repository managers	Lower the barrier for your depositors while improving metadata quality and the value of your collection.
Depositors	Time saving deposits Import data from other repositories and services Autocomplete-as-you-type for fast data entry
Researchers	Optimised for Google Scholar Works with bibliography managers Works with desktop applications and new Web 2.0 services RSS feeds and email alerts keep you up to date
Developers	Tightly-managed, quality-controlled code framework Flexible plugin architecture for developing extensions
Webmasters	Easily integrate reports, bibliographic listings, author CVs and RSS feeds into your corporate web presence
Institutions	High specification repository platform for high visibility, high quality institutional open access collections Conform with research funder open access mandates

A better platform for a high quality repository. Backed by a support team with expertise in the research, library and publishing industries, EPrints 3 is the platform for a variety of open source, bespoke and hosted repository solutions.

Key Features

Less typing, more quality Inaccurate or mis-spelled data and missing details is a major challenge for repositories. EPrints 3 helps users enter quality metadata with fewer keystrokes by using a name authority. For starters, the repository itself can be used as an authority; metadata already entered in other records - author names, journals, conferences, funding bodies, institutions - is used to create a shortlist. Alternatively, a repository administrator can create a name authority file, or connect EPrints 3 directly to an external authority service.

	Repository as author name authority used to autocomplete author names
	Repository as eprint title authority used to prevent duplicates
	ROMEO journal copyright policy service as authority service used to autocomplete journal title, ISSN and publisher details, and display publisher's self-archiving policy as green (postprint), pale green (pre-print only) or gray (neither)

Data in and out EPrints 3 makes it a snap to import records from XML or a reference management utility (BibTeX, EndNote) or even from an external service (PubMed, CrossRef). With support for exports to RSS, XML, reference management utilities (BibTeX, EndNote, Reference Manager), metadata interchange formats (Dublin Core, METS, MODS) and even external services (Google Maps, Similie Timeline), EPrints 3 export plugins help users get the most value out of your repository.

Behind-the-scenes, EPrints 3 introduces a flexible plugin architecture which makes it easy to create new import and export plugins, opening up EPrints 3 to be used with an enormous range of software and services, and making EPrints 3 the most interoperable platform available for building repositories.

	Importing records from PubMed by entering PubMed IDs
	Importing records from CrossRef by entering DOIs
	Exporting a search result as an RSS feed - entered into any RSS reader this feed will always show the most recent eprints matching the search

Show me EPrints 3 adds a new dimension to the repository experience by adding thumbnails and preview images of uploaded files.

Hovering over a thumbnail or PDF icon displays a preview of the file before downloading

Try EPrints 3

Try out the new features of EPrints 3 online with our demonstration repository.

Get EPrints 3

Download the latest EPrints 3 release (Linux/Unix). Documentation is available on the wiki.

EPrints 3 can now be run on a Windows platform - installation instructions on the wiki and the EPrints-Windows developer blog.

News

Latest EPrints 3 coverage on the EPrints Insiders blog.