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.

Some demonstration text.

EPrints Introduction and Overview

  • EPrints Key Features Tour
  • Repositories for other purposes
    • Collections
    • Research Data
    • Open Education

Course Streams

Using EPrints

...as a Visitor

  • Searching for items
  • Browsing for items
  • Requesting a copy of a restricted fulltext

...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.

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

  • Technical Orientation

Systems Administration

The EPrints API

The EPrints Wiki

Core Development

  • Creating a Dev Environment
  • Creating Pull Requests


For Contributors

If you are creating or curating a training course page, please copy/paste the current Template page.

Creation of videos can be done with screen capture software. The following packages have been used by video producers:

  • Screenflick (on a Mac) -- Adam Field
  • Screencast-o-matic (on Windows 10) -- Lizz Jennings (note: there's a microphone "enhancement" feature on Windows 10 that will make you sound like Darth Vader. You need to disable this in the Windows 10 sound settings for the screencast to work).