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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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We are pleased to confirm that EPrints Services has been contracted by Jisc to provide technical support to the UK’s HEIs for the REF Compliance Checker plugin for EPrints until mid-July 2016. If you are unfamiliar with the plugin further information, including a screencast, may be accessed here. Should you require help to install the REF Compliance Checker plugin and you are currently an EPrints Services customer, please get in touch via your usual support routes. Other UK institutions needing technical support should contact info@services.eprints.org in the first instance.Read More →

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We are pleased to announce that EPrints 3.3.15 is now available to download. EPrints 3.3.15 is a minor release which features a number of enhancements and bug fixes, including: Added ability to select default import/export plugin New ‘dry run update’ feature in epadmin script telling you which tables and columns will be added to your SQL database Counter compliance of 304 responses Day-of-week and day-of-month logic bug fixed Improved rendering of possible DOI links Maria-db sorting issue on manage deposits screen fixed Preview window location updated after the prototype 1.71 update Additional checks to remove unnecessary log messages (cleaner log) Downloads available from files.eprints.org ThisRead 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 →