GNU EPrints Archive Software

GNU EPrints is free software for creating online digital archives, principally those that store the refereed research output of an academic institution and make it openly accessible to users and OAI service providers on the Web. It has been developed at the University of Southampton.

"The EPrints software has the largest - and most broadly distributed - installed base of any of the repository software systems"Open Society Institute Guide to Institutional Repository Software

http://software.eprints.org/

National Policies on Open Access Provision for University

Research Output

An International meetingThursday February 19, 2004, at New College, Southampton University

This meeting is supported by EPrints.org - Self-Archiving and Open Archives

Unified Dual Open-Access-Provision Policy endorsed by the Budapest Open Access Initiative

• BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists.

• BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it.

The “Green and Gold routes to Open Access”

Green and Gold routes to Open Access

BOAI-2 ("gold"): Publish your article in a suitable open-access journal whenever one exists.

• BOAI-1 ("green"): Otherwise, publish your article in a suitable toll-access journal and also self-archive it.

The emphasis of this meeting is making progress towards the green road of author self-archiving in institutional archives