Editing EPrints Glossary (section)

=== EPrint URL ===
The URL of an [[#EPrint|eprint]] is the location it can be found at on the World Wide Web.  Historically with [[#EPrints repository software|EPrints repository software] it has taken a form like:
 http://example.eprints.org/1234/
However, since EPrints 3.4, it has been possible to configure the URL to take a long format like that of the [[#EPrint URI|eprint URI]]:
 http://example.eprints.org/id/eprint/1234
By using the following setting (typically in the [[#Archive|archive]]'s ''cfg/cfg.d/[[20_baseurls.pl]]''): 
 $c->{use_long_url_format] = 1;
By making this change the old style URL will still work but will redirect to the new format.  The reason for the change was to make it more apparent that the URL represented a publication within EPrints repository.  Web crawlers and bots often record links (i.e. URLs) they find on web pages but they don't actually access them.  In particular [https://scholar.google.com Google Scholar] would disregard these URLs without checking them, as there was nothing from the URL to indicate they represented a publication.  By adding ''/id/eprint/'' into the URL it makes it the URL distinct from other common URLs of the form ''<nowiki>http://HOSTNAME/ID</nowiki>'', which are mostly not URLs for EPrints [[#Abstract page|abstract pages]].