EPrints has been leading innovation in the Open Access movement over the past 15 years. EPrints provides a set of mature ingest, preservation, dissemination and reporting services for your institution’s OA needs.<\/p>\n
Created in 2000 as a direct outcome of the 1999 Santa Fe meeting that decided on the OAI-PMH protocol, EPrints software provides stable, pragmatic infrastructure on which institutions the world over have been utilising to enable their Open Access agendas.<\/p>\n
As Open Source Software, EPrints’ greatest asset is the community of developers, librarians and users that feed into its progress and keep EPrints the innovative platform that we are so proud of.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n Open Access is giving free, immediate, permanent online access to the full text of research articles for anyone, worldwide. \u00a0Society as a whole can benefit from an expanded and accelerated research cycle in which research can advance more effectively because researchers have immediate access to all the findings they need.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n The visibility, usage and impact of researchers\u2019 own findings increases with open access, as does their power to find, access and use the findings of others. Universities co-benefit from their researchers\u2019 increased impact, which also increases the return on the investment of the funders of the research, such as governments, charitable foundations, and the tax-paying public.<\/p>\n For teachers, Open Access means no restrictions on providing articles for teaching purposes. Only the URL need be provided; Open Access takes care of the rest. Publishers likewise also benefit from the wider dissemination, greater visibility and higher journal citation impact factor of their articles.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n The two roads to Open Access should not be confused or conflated; they are complementary. (EPrints is focussed largely on the green road, because it is the fastest and surest way to reach immediate 100% OA; but the green road might eventually lead to gold too.) OA self-archiving is not self-publishing; nor is it about online publishing without quality control (peer review); nor is it intended for writings for which the author wishes to be paid, such as books or magazine\/newspaper articles. OA self-archiving is for peer-reviewed research, written solely for research impact rather than royalty revenue.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n An Institutional Repository (IR) is the best way to provide open access to research output. <\/a>This open source software can be downloaded for free at\u00a0http:\/\/files.eprints.org<\/a><\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Putting Open Access into Practice<\/p>\n <\/a><\/a><\/p>\n An Institutional Repository is the best way to provide open access to research output. Software such as EPrints provides a web-based OAI-compliant IR for free.<\/p>\n <\/a>This open source software can be downloaded for free at\u00a0http:\/\/files.eprints.org<\/a><\/p>\n If you would prefer us to take care of your repository, including building, customisations, hosting and support, contact EPrints Services to discuss your needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" EPrints has been leading innovation in the Open Access movement over the past 15 years. EPrints provides a set of mature ingest, preservation, dissemination and reporting services for your institution\u2019s OA needs.What is Open Access?<\/h3>\n
Who benefits from Open Access?<\/h3>\n
The two roads of Open Access<\/h3>\n
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How to provide Open Access<\/h3>\n
\nSoftware such as EPrints provides a web-based OAI- compliant IR for free.<\/p>\nHow can you implement Open Access?<\/h3>\n
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