ePrint Software options

William J NixonDAEDALUS Project, University of Glasgow

eFAIR Meeting, Southampton

Range of Software

• GNU Eprints [Southampton]

• DSpace [MIT/HP]

• CDSware [CERN]

• ETD-db [Virginia Tech]

GNU Eprints

• Developed at the Electronics and Computer Science Department of the University of Southampton.

• ePrints version 2.0 launched 14 Feb 02• 67+ sites now running ePrints• http://software.eprints.org

eprints.org was previously supported by CogPrints, funded by JISC as part of its Electronic Libraries (eLib) Programme.

ePrints at Glasgow

ePrints Record

DSpace

• Development driven by Academics at MIT• Freely available from November 2002• Digital Preservation component• Metadata: Dublin Core “qualified”• DSpace Federation• Installation began February 2003• http://www.dspace.org

DSpace at MIT

CDSware

• Developed at CERN

• Preprint server, document system and online catalogue

• OAI-PMH compatible

• MARC 21 for bib records

• Freely available for download

• http://cdsware.cern.ch

CDS Demo

CDS Beta

E-Theses Software

• Developed at Virginia Tech• Available free of charge to NDLTD members• OAI Compliant• Perl scripts and MySQL• http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/

ETD-db

Discussion…

• Exchange of experience

• Other software

• Further discussion on the eFair list