Recent news items from around the EPrints Community.
- Altmetrics Pluginby Justin Bradley
John 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 Bradley
Further 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 Bradley
The latest version of EPrints 3.4 has been released, see https://files.eprints.org for more details.
- IRUS Retiringby Justin Bradley
The 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 Bradley
To improve discovery and indexing by Google Scholar, EPrints now supports Highwire and PRISM metatags. See https://github.com/eprints/metatags for more details.
- EPrints 3.5 beta 1by Justin Bradley
Our first beta of the next major version of EPrints has been released. See https://files.eprints.org for more information.