Best regards

Darren

 

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Hi Darren,

I would start by looking on the EPrints wiki's manual page:

https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Manual

Linked off there is a sub-page for training videos:

https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Category:Training_Video

There is also a link to a separate page for training materials:

https://www.eprints.org/software/training/

Hope this helps

David Newman

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Hi David and Jusitn -

Thanks very much for the steer here and apologies to Justin for retiring him prematurely(!)

I'll work through the advice. In the meantime, is the any kind of 'Eprints for Dummies' manual I could refer to? I'd like to go right back to step 1 so I get a thorough understanding of how the system works.

Best

Darren

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From: David R Newman <drn@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 08 July 2022 10:22
To: Darren Taylor <d.taylor@worc.ac.uk>
Cc: Janet Davidson <j.davidson@worc.ac.uk>; Justin Bradley <justin@soton.ac.uk>
Subject: [External] - Re: Pubrouter a/c details / Fw: pubrouter config / Re: [External] - Re: I'm Retiring

 

Hi Darren,

I have just been looking back through this email thread and I think what happened was that an email thread related to Roger Fairman (at Worcester) retiring must have continued to be used by Justin and at some point it morphed into looking like Justin was retiring.

I can see for the discussion thread for WORC-66, you said you were going to get back to be last Summer (in August 2021) after you were back from leave.  I think there was discussion about changing the password but I did not want to do this until we were certain this would not break something elsewhere.  I.e. the Jisc Publications Router needs it to deposit items onto your EPrints repository.  I can see that items were deposited by the Jisc Publications Router last night.  If I updated the password, unless you were able to update this in the Jisc Publication Router system as well, it would no longer be able to deposit.  As the password stored on EPrints is encrypted, I cannot tell you what the current password is.

I have just been speaking to Justin (cc-ed) and he reckons that Jisc would have sent you the username and password they would want you to configure for the Publications Router user on eprints.worc.ac.uk.  Therefore, I would email them (see https://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications-router) about this.  They may even be able to point you to a web console where you can update the password.  At which point I could update the password on eprints.worc.ac.uk and straight after you would hopefully be able to update this password on Jisc's web console.

In the meantime I can see that the number of items under the Pubrouter user has increased quite a bit:

|        9 | archive       |
|        6 | buffer        |
|      542 | inbox         |
I think I suggested before that I could write a script move all the items in this user's workarea into the review buffer, so at least editors/admins could review them.  I could make this script run overnight every night to move any new items in this user's workarea to the review buffer.  However, you would need to make sure that anyone reviewing these did not just send them back to the user's workarea, if they did not want to put them live.  Otherwise, they would end up keep being shunted back and forth between the review buffer and the user's workarea.

It may be possible to get the Jisc Publication Router to deposit after adding these new eprint records so they would always appear in the review buffer.  Other third-party applications that use EPrints' APIs normally do this.  Also, I cannot remember a similar issue to yours where items languish in the user's workarea because no one can see them.  Maybe this is because other institutions can regularly login as the Pubrouter user and check for new items.  However, this seems unlikely, as having to remember to periodically login as another user seems like something that would get forgotten about after a while.

Regards

David Newman

On 08/07/2022 9:30 am, Darren Taylor wrote:

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Hi David - hope to find you well.

The team here are getting to grips with pubrouter: I don't believe we ever got hold of the password for the Pubrouter account, and I suspect Justin retired before he was able to supply us with that (for earlier correspondence please see below).

Would you be able to supply the password for it?

Thanks and best regards

Darren

 

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From: Darren Taylor <d.taylor@worc.ac.uk>
Sent: 24 June 2021 11:53
To: Justin Bradley <justin@soton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: pubrouter config / Re: [External] - Re: I'm Retiring

 

Sounds good, thanks.

Darren

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From: Justin Bradley <justin@soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 24 June 2021 11:51:58
To: Darren Taylor
Subject: Re: pubrouter config / Re: [External] - Re: I'm Retiring

 

We can create one, likely called ‘pubrouter'.  And tell you the password.

Justin

On 24 Jun 2021, at 11:51, Darren Taylor <d.taylor@worc.ac.uk> wrote:

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Many thanks Justin -

Would I need to create a new eprints user at this end?

Best regards

Darren

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From: Justin Bradley <justin@soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 24 June 2021 11:47:01
To: Darren Taylor
Subject: Re: pubrouter config / Re: [External] - Re: I'm Retiring

 

Hi Darren,

I’ve raised WORC-66 here to cover the pub router activity.  Do you have a user in mind, or shall we create a suitable one?

Regards,

Justin

On 23 Jun 2021, at 12:51, Darren Taylor <d.taylor@worc.ac.uk> wrote:

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Hi Justin - hope all well with you.

I've just had word that a new pubrouter agreement has been signed and sent, so we're all clear to proceed.

You said pub router needs a small config tweak and to use a local user:

If you're ok to proceed with that work, that would be much appreciated.

Thanks and regards

Darren

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From: Darren Taylor
Sent: 24 May 2021 16:47:42
To: Justin Bradley
Subject: Re: [External] - Re: I'm Retiring

 

Many thanks Justin -

I'm just getting a steer from the team here on what they'd like to do and I'll be back to you.

Thanks again

Darren

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From: Justin Bradley <justin@soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 24 May 2021 15:53:07
To: Darren Taylor
Subject: Re: [External] - Re: I'm Retiring

 

Hi Darren,

I’ve asked Kelly to forward on anything she deems helpful from a documentation point of view.

For pub router, it needs a small config tweak, and it needs to use a local user (rather than your SSO authenticated normal ones), which we can sort for you.

I believe most, if not all, use the basic rather than RIOXX formatted connection.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Justin

On 24 May 2021, at 12:00, Darren Taylor <d.taylor@worc.ac.uk> wrote:

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Hi Justin -

I've just logged into eprints for the first time in a long time, and started re-familiarising myself with the admin and other areas.

Hope you don't mind two (hopefully easy) questions:

1. Is there some support documentation available which might help me re-orientate myself with eprints?
2. Phil here has just been having the start of a discussion with JISC about their Publications Router service and this question arose: Is our eprints tenancy configured for pubrouter to feed data into it? (And if so,  is it the basic or RIOXX connection?)

Best regards

Darren

Darren Taylor Systems Librarian Library Services University of Worcester www.worc.ac.uk/library

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From: Darren Taylor
Sent: 19 April 2021 14:22
To: Justin Bradley; Phil Jones
Cc: Deirdre Windsor
Subject: Re: [External] - Re: I'm Retiring

 

Hi Justin - and thanks for getting in touch.

AFAIK, Adam will continue as the IT liaison: I don't quite know quite how much internal IT input is needed since we moved to a SaaS model (authentication?) but I've cc'ed him in here in case he wanted to input or update.

No doubt we'll be speaking with you more in due course once we start thinking about how we move the service forward.

Best regards in the meantime

Darren

Darren Taylor Systems Librarian Library Services University of Worcester www.worc.ac.uk/library

 

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From: Justin Bradley <justin@soton.ac.uk>
Sent: 19 April 2021 14:11:07
To: Phil Jones; Darren Taylor
Cc: Deirdre Windsor
Subject: [External] - Re: I'm Retiring

 

Hi Phil, hi Darren,

Until now I’ve had Roger, Phil, Adam as support contacts. Has Adam Newton left also?

Thanks,

Justin

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Hi, John and Justin,

 

Just a quick email to let you know that I’m retiring after 27 years here at Worcester. Going forward the contacts here will be:

 

System related matters – Daren Taylor and Phil Jones

 

Financial matters – Deirdre Windsor and Phil Jones

 

It has been a pleasure working with you,

 

Cheers

Roger

 

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