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Welcome to the EPrints Wiki

The content of this site is technical only. For more information on the EPrints project, visit http://eprints.org/

• The Plan - What we're working on, what we're planning next and so forth...

EPrints Wiki

To contribute to this wiki you will need to register for an eprints account. Go to http://trac.eprints.org/ldap/ and fill in the "Register for a new account" form. You will need a valid email account to verify before your password will be active. If you experience a problem with this please email Tim Brody (tdb2 at ecs.soton.ac.uk.) including the account username you used.

Download EPrints

• EPrints 3.4 series (latest release)
  • Read this before upgrading your archive from 3.3 to 3.4
  • Upgrading between EPrints 3.4 versions
  • Download
  • Development
• EPrints 3.3 series (legacy supported release)
  • Read this before upgrading your archive from 3.2 to 3.3
  • Download
  • February 2021 security patch for EPrints 3.3.16
  • Legacy development

Documentation

• EPrints 3 Documentation (Start here)
• EPrints 2 and older Versions The manual for older versions of EPrints are available on the main site.
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Web Services - sneak peek at the upcoming Web Service API
• Training materials provided by EPrints Services - http://www.eprints.org/software/training/

Scripts, patches and translations

• EPrints on EPrints - the EPrints Files repository is the place to share scripts, patches and translations. This is also the place where releases of EPrints itself will be archived.
• Files/ Wiki pages about scripts and patches. There isn't a page for every script or patch.
• Translating EPrints into your language.
• How to contribute

Tips, tricks and howtos

• Installing EPrints on various platforms or in non-standard ways
• Howto..
  • integrate with LDAP - authenticate users with LDAP/Active Directory server
  • integrate with CAS - integrate EPrints with an enterprise single sign-on service
  • Secure EPrints2 with HTTPS
  • Secure EPrints3 with HTTPS
  • Add a Request eprint from author button (to non-OA records)
  • customize RSS output - show an institution's or person's last n publications
  • more..

Contributing

• Wiki Guidelines
• Wiki Todo List
• EPrints:Migration to files.eprints.org

Getting Support

• EPrints Services - premium support and training from EPrints experts
• Mailing Lists

EPrints Projects

• IRRA - Supporting the UK research assessment processes through institutional repositories