About EPrints – EPrints Community

Download + install the latest release!

EPrints version 3.4.6 is now available! Includes security / privacy improvements, Signposting integration, support for converting HEIC and WEBP thumbnails, and much, much more.

Download + install your desired ‘flavour’ of EPrints tarball. Install guides are available for CentOS/Redhat/Fedora and Debian/Ubuntu; or
Download the canonical codebase for EPrints from GitHub, along with code for community contributions to the EPrints platform.

EPrints feature overview

EPrints repository software provides a flexible, free, open source repository solution for organizations wishing to manage their digital objects effectively. With over 800 registered installations, EPrints is most commonly used to store, organize, and power the discovery of research publications by universities and research institutions, but is also used to deliver research dataset repositories, open educational resource (OER) repositories, and much, much more.

Flexible: From its generic core, EPrints is available in a series of ‘flavours’, with each highly configurable flavour supporting common repository use cases, such as Publications, Data, Education, and Impact, and supporting heterogeneous file formats and content types.
Configurable: Easily make customizations to the underlying software code to support local repository needs, or reuse those emerging from the open source EPrints community.
Extensible: Install add-ons and plug-ins (or ‘ingredients’) to support EPrints integrations with important scholarly tools such as ORCID, DataCite and OpenAIRE, as well as ingredients to support optional functionality or repository enhancements.
Discoverable: Harness out-of-the-box interoperability with academic search tools, including Google Scholar, Google Dataset Search, CORE, Unpaywall, BASE, OpenAlex, and more, with observance of SEO conventions promoting Google and Bing indexing baked into EPrints as standard.
Persistable: Support the data archiving and digital preservation of repository content, through integrations with tools such as Archivematica and Arkivum.

EPrints exemplars

Tracing its history back to the emergence of the first OAI-PMH protocol, EPrints has continually evolved to reflect changes in the open research and open scholarly infrastructure landscape, and continues to form the basis of repository innovation across the world.

Below are some notable examples of how EPrints is being used by organizations across the world to power publication and research data repositories, from Data Compass at the London School of Hygience & Tropical Medicine to ZORA, the open repository of the University of Zurich.

Home page of Data Compass, based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Home page of QUT EPrints, the repository of the Queensland University of Technology.