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 more.
Feature overview
- 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.