EPrints v3 Demonstration: Tutorial 1

The goal of EPrints is to facilitate high quality, high value repositories that support high volumes of daily deposits, for open access, scholarly collections, teaching, data or preservation. EPrints v3, released in January 2007, provided important steps in this direction, improving metadata quality by providing AJAX assistance to depositers, adding new value to repository contents by giving readers the ability to export material to a wide range of applications and services and allowing depositors to import eprints from high quality services like Crossref and PubMed. EPrints consists of a core API plus a suite of plugins that provide all of the user interface and repository functionality. Plugins extend and alter any EPrints facilities, providing a huge increase in scope for open source community development. The most recent plugins to be released provide new features for repository-scale metadata quality management, configuration control and user statistics.