About EPrints
Welcome to the home of EPrints, the world-leading open-source digital repository platform. Developed at the University of Southampton, EPrints has been providing stable, innovative repository services across the academic sector and beyond for over 15 years. We are proud of the stability, flexibility and pragmatism of our software.
About EPrints Services
EPrints Services is our not-for-profit commercial services organisation, which has been building & hosting repositories, training users and developing bespoke functionality for over 10 years. EPrints Services exists to promote the use of repositories and to provide a sustainable funding stream to guarantee the future development and support of EPrints Open Source software.
The EPrints team is committed to working closely with clients to develop tailor-made repositories that fulfil their requirements, and we are proud to be supporting EPrints installations throughout the world.
Source : https://www.eprints.org/uk/index.php/about
EPrints 3.4.0 is publicly available from files.eprints.org/2305 or via github.org/eprints
A technical guide on how to upgrade from 3.3 to 3.4 is here
Source : https://www.eprints.org/uk/wp-content/uploads/eprints-3.4-poster.png
Changes in 3.4 include
Slimmer core code
Publication repository specific code has been moved out of the core, and into its own ‘flavour’.
This leaves the core smaller and more maintainable, as well as no longer being as biased to a traditional publications repositories.
Flavour support
Each EPrints repository is now a particular ‘flavour’.
Having moved the publications specifics into its own package, when a new repository is created, one of the installed flavours is specified. This can initially be ‘publication’ or ‘zero’, where zero is the minimal set up for creating a simple repository.
Other flavours have been created, based on zero. Such as research data, open education, research impact.
Ingredient support
Similar to flavours in structure, an ingredient is an installable library of code which represents a useful and reusable feature. For example bazaar support, which some but not all flavours will need.
These ingredients are specified at a flavour level. The publication flavour naturally uses the bazaar ingredient, but zero does not.
New features
- Multiple repository support – while you have always been able to install several repositories on the same EPrints installation, you needed to be careful about local changes to one repository affecting the others. This was mostly due to limitations with mod_perl.
- There is now an option to further isolate the repository configurations if needed.
- Google Scholar support – to better support Google Scholar indexing the repositories, the default URL for an EPrint record is now the same as its URI, the previous URL is also supported via a redirect.
- Workflows – many fields in a workflow can now be set as ‘read only’, rather than risking them be altered by mistake, or omitted and causing the user confusion.
- Filtering – a set of optional callbacks can now be used to decide if a given page is accessible to a user, or if in fact a user must log in to access it. Similar callbacks can also be used to filter search results before they are rendered, meaning a user can only then see pages they can then access.
Fixes – many other changes have been made, eg improved 404 handling. As well as a round of core fixes to both 3.3.15 and 3.4.
Source : https://www.eprints.org/uk/index.php/eprints-3.4