----- Original Message ----- From: "Stevan Harnad" <harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Newsgroups: bionet.journals.note To: "AmSci Forum" <american-scientist-open-access-forum@amsci.org> Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:16 PM Subject: [BOAI] GNU EPrints 2.3.7 released
Below is the announcement of the release of the latest version of the GNU Eprints OAI-compliant OA-Archive-creating software: http://software.eprints.org/
If your institution has created an OAI-compliant OA Archive (with this or any other software), please register your institutional OA Archive(s) at:
http://archives.eprints.org/index.php?action=analysis
and please register your institutional OA self-archiving policy at:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php
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From: Christopher Gutteridge <cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
EPrints 2.3.7 released. http://software.eprints.org/
The style of the default archive has been overhauled to be neater and make better use of stylesheets. See http://demoprints.eprints.org/ for a look at the new style.
This release adds the option to make required file formats depend on the type of eprint, rather than have one setting for the entire archive. This means that in one archive an eprint about a book may not require any formats at all, one about a presentation may require powerpoint, and a normal article require PDF.
Version 2.3.0 to 2.3.6 of EPrints required the "libapreq" library, this library proved difficult for some users to install, so in response to our users comments, from 2.3.7 is no longer used.
Also 2.3.7 sees the addition of a XSLT style sheet to makes human readable view of the OAI interface in Internet Explorer or Mozilla browsers. eg. http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/perl/oai2?verb=Identify
-- Christopher Gutteridge -- cjg@ecs.soton.ac.uk -- +44 (0)23 8059 4833 University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science