Eprints is open source repository software developed at the University of Southampton for building institutional repositories. It was first released in 2000 and supports a variety of document types including articles, books, theses, and multimedia files. Eprints is widely used and allows users to upload, search, and export content. It uses traditional technologies like MySQL and Perl but newer versions provide more flexibility and control for repository managers. While it is easy to install and use, Eprints focuses only on repository functions rather than broader digital library needs.
2. HISTORY
EARLY 2000- EPrints series began
NOVEMBER 2000- EPrints 1.0 was released with
OAI 0.2 support.
24TH JANUARY 2007- eprints version 3 was
officially released and was described by its
developers as a major leap forward in
functionality, giving more control and flexibility
to repository managers, depositories, researchers
and technical administrators.
APRIL 2008- current version of eprints is 3.0.5 was
released.
3. Eprints has been developed at the
university of Southampton School of
electronics and computer science.
4. When first version of Eprints was released it
became the first and one of the most widely used
free open access, institutional repository software
for archiving preprints and post of faculty
members.
EPRINTS
-is a significant milestone towards ideal
repository software.
-Is a free and open source software for building
open access repositories that are compliant with
the open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata
Harvesting.
5. -primarily used by many organizations for building
institutional repositories.
-repository software has been developed to address
the growing demands on repositories to
accommodate a wider variety objects and metadata,
to integrate with a wider range of services and
applications and to support higher deposit rates to
serve the needs of the whole institution.
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9. DOCUMENT TYPES THAT CAN BE ADDED
IN THE SOFTWARE
-eprints supports to add the following document types in
the repository:
ARTICLE- an article in a journal, magazine, newspaper.
BOOK SECTION- a chapter or section in a book.
CONFERENCE OR WORKSHOP ITEM- a paper, poster, speech
, lecture, or presentation given at a conference, workshop
or other event.
BOOK- conference volume
10. MONOGRAPH- this may be a technical report
,project report, documentation, manual, working
paper or discussion paper.
12. THESIS- or dissertation
ARTEFACT- an artist’s artefact or work product.
SHOW/EXHIBITION- site specific performance-based
deposit
COMPOSITION- a musical composition
13. PERFORMANCE- performance of a musical event
IMAGE- a digital photograph or visual image
VIDEO- digital video
AUDIO- sound recording
DATASET- a bounded collection of quantitative
data ex. Spreadsheet
EXPERIMENT- experimental data with
intermediate analyses and summary results.
TEACHING RESOURCE- lecture notes, exercises,
exam papers or course syllabuses
OTHER- something with in the scope of the
repository, but not covered by the other
14. The software have the capability to define the
domain/scope of digital Library for whom it is intended
for, and Eprints is basically intended for creating
preprints/post print archives, but the current version also
support adding other type of documents such as
audio/video.
All text formats are by default supported by the software,
but software also supports to upload JPEG, PNG, GIF, BMP,
TIFF, file formats, Adobe postscript, Adobe PDF, HTML file
format, MP3, AVI, MPEG file formats.
15. Software checks for duplicate entries while uploading the
digital documents on the basis of “Title”
Supports to upload digital objects from existing URL as well.
Has a facility to acquire material from network through
authorized Eprints user. Eprints user can upload documents
through his/her login area from anywhere on Internet.
Supports to import metadata from XML/PubMED and allow end
user to separately upload full texts. It is easy to import
metadata in Eprints if available in XML or eprints supported
format.
16. System supports to import bulk metadata/contents.
Metadata is separately imported in Eprints.
System supports to export content/metadata. While
exporting metadata software supports to export individual
item in the repository with following file formats:
o ASCII Citation
o BibTex
o Dublin Core
o DIDL
o EP3 XML
o EP3 XML with Files Embedded
17. o EndNote
o HTML Citation
o METS
o MODS
o Open URL Content Object
o Open URL Dissertation
o Open URL Journal
o Refer
o Reference Manager
o Simple Metadata
18. Eprints create a unique numeric ID for each document
that gets added into the repository.
Software has weed out policy and it allows to put an
embargo data for each item that gets added into the
repository as well it has “retire document” option for
every item that is added into the repository.
System supports to delete items from the repository , but
does not support any cross linking of objects from one
collection to other.
19. COMPARISON OF EPRINTS AND DSPACE
EPRINTS DSPACE
Installation -easy to set up
-It is possible to chose
between a source- or
binary-installation.
-If any installation
problems are arising a
comprehensive support
is ensured.
-requires a little more
effort
-But in fact DSpace is
easy to run and
maintain for any
experienced systems
engineer.
-There is no support
service for the DSpace
installation. But there is
a detailed system
documentation
20. Programming
language
Perl Java
Operation
system
Both environment variants
had been tested: Solaris and
Linux.
Furthermore it is also
possible to install Eprints2
on any computer that is
running with GNU/Linux or
UNIX operating system.
DSpace had been tested on
Linux Suse 7.3.
In general DSpace can run
on Solaris, Linux and
Windows systems.
21. Functions -Eprints is free software
which creates online
archives.
-It is possible to store
documents in any common
format that the archive
administrator defined to be
accepted.
-DSpace can be used for self
archiving by institutions and
faculties.
-It provides long-term
physical storage and
management of digital items
in a repository.
Reusage -Eprints is widespread all over
the world. In August 2003
there are 72 worldwide
archives running Eprints
software officially listed.
-It is not reported how many
archives are running DSpace
software. One example of an
European repository that
implemented DSpace is
"Erasmus University:
Research Online".
22. Technology -Eprints uses
traditional
technologies and runs
on pure Open Source
systems: mySQL is the
world's most popular
open source database,
recognized for its
speed and reliability
and Apache has been
the most popular web
server on the Internet
since April of 1996.
-Eprints is programmed
by using the script
language "Perl", that is
low level but powerful.
-DSpace operates with
new technologies such
as the Postgres
database, that is more
advanced than mySQL
and Tomcat for jsp/java
web application, that
has higher
performance than
eprints.
-Dspace supports and
includes also handle
server, which ensures
that each document
has unique and
persistent URL.
23. Interoperability -Eprints is freely
distributable and
subject to the GNU
General Public License.
This means that its
source code is open
and freely modifiable
by any programmer
who wishes to modify
it (on condition that
modifications are all
free and open).
-The DSpace system is
freely available as
open-source software.
This allows to make
any necessary changes
to the downloaded
copy. The system was
designed to make
adaptations for
individual
organisations as easy
as possible.
24. search -Eprints allows to scan
each of the metadata
field types in the
database by simple or
advanced search. Any
metadata field can be
searched with fine
granularity by SQL
querying the database.
-DSpace offers two
levels of text search:
simple and advanced
search. It's submission
process also allows to
use a qualified version
of the Dublin Core
metadata schema for
the description of each
item. These
descriptions are stored
in a relational
database, which is
used by the search
engine to retrieve
items.
