EPrints Training Course

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.

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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 Managing Users Editing User Records Understanding User Roles and Permissions Basic Troubleshooting Checking and Starting the Indexer Batch Editing

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 Adding a logo Phrases Static Pages Item Types and Metadata Configuration Subject Trees The Workflow Basic Workflow Configuration Authority Lists and Autocompletion 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. Branding Creating a new site-wide template. Understanding Configuration Structure Adding a Metadata Field Programmatic Metadata Values Automatic Values Default Values Virtual Fields Custom Rendering of Values

Maintaining and Developing EPrints Technical Orientation Systems Administration Installing EPrints Troubleshooting Troubleshooting Searching The EPrints API API Basics The Repository Object Datasets and Dataobjs XML and DOM Developing Plugins and Bazaar Packages Export Plugin Bazaar Package New Field Bazaar Package The EPrints Wiki EPrints Wiki Basics Core Development Creating a Dev Environment Creating Pull Requests

For Contributors

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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).