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- Governance participation invited!by George MacgregorThose of you following developments of EPrints may be aware that there has recently been community adoption of minimum viable governance (MVG). A session at Open Repositories 2025 outlined the motivation behind improved software governance and better coordination of EPrints development activities. EPrints community adoption of MVG is intended to improve formal decision making and deliver strategic steering of the software. EPrints is a terrific and highly flexible repository software solution — and we want to promote its wider use and adoption! An interim Steering Committee was formed to lay the foundation of this governance framework, and we have now reached a point at which greater community involvement should be invited. There are two principal fora seeking… Read more: Governance participation invited!
- EPrints 3v5 beta 2by Justin BradleyOur second exciting beta of the next version of EPrints has been released. See https://files.eprints.org for more information.
- Altmetrics Pluginby Justin BradleyJohn Salter has released an update to the Altmetrics plugin, in line with the API changes which are coming into effect, see https://bazaar.eprints.org for more details.
- More Meta Tagsby Justin BradleyFurther to the recent release of the Meta Tags plugin to support Google Scholar, we have released a minor update, see https://github.com/eprints/metatags
- EPrints 3.4.7by Justin BradleyThe latest version of EPrints 3.4 has been released, see https://files.eprints.org for more details.
- IRUS Retiringby Justin BradleyThe IRUS service as used by many EPrints installations for statistics gathering is set to retire in April 2026. There are plans to allow OpenAIRE compliant repositories to move over to using a service hosted by OpenAIRE instead. See https://research.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/09/02/preparing-for-changes-to-irus/ for more details.
- Google Scholar Meta Tagsby Justin BradleyTo improve discovery and indexing by Google Scholar, EPrints now supports Highwire and PRISM metatags. See https://github.com/eprints/metatags for more details.
- COAR Notifyby Justin BradleyCoSector have release plugins to support COAR Notify and PCI implementations.See https://coar-repositories.org/news-updates/coar-notify-now-available-to-eprints-users/
- EPrints 3.5 beta 1by Justin BradleyOur first beta of the next major version of EPrints has been released. See https://files.eprints.org for more information.