EPrints Training Course

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This page is intended to tie together training videos and other resources into a set of comprehensive training courses for EPrints. It is intended to serve as an introduction to EPrints for users, administrators and systems administrators involved with running an EPrints Repository.

EPrints Introduction and Overview

  • EPrints Key Features Tour

Course Streams

Using EPrints

...as a User

  • Depositing an EPrint
  • Importing EPrints
  • Saved Searches and Notifications
  • Exporting EPrints
  • Managing Your User Profile

...as an Editor

  • The Editorial Buffer
  • The Staff Search

...as an Administrator

Configuring EPrints

Basic Configuration

Basic configuration can be done at the front-end, and requires no knowledge of perl or the EPrints API.

  • Configuration Tools Overview
  • Branding
  • Phrases
  • Static Pages
  • Item Types and Metadata Configuration
    • Subject Trees
    • The Workflow
    • Citation Styles
    • Item Types
      • Adding a new type
      • Removing a type
  • Browse Views
  • Searches
  • Installing Bazaar Packages

Advanced Configuration

Advanced configuration assumes some knowledge of the command-line and sometimes a little bit of Perl and the EPrints API.

Maintaining and Developing EPrints

Systems Administration

The EPrints API

Core Development

  • Creating a Dev Environment
  • Creating Pull Requests