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Platforms Digital Commons IR+ Example/s of repository built using http://eprints.bham.ac.uk/ http://surface.syr.edu/ https://urresearch.rochester.edu/ho platform/service me.action Product website http://www.eprints.org http://digitalcommons.bepress.co http://code.google.com/p/irplus m

Direct Costs & Services Provided Eprints Digital Commons IR+ Software license type Open Source Commercial Open Source Hosting & Support Services Optional paid "EPrints Services" Full hosting: setup, training, None. User community help include: hosting and maintaining support, documentation, available. User community is still repository, customization, importing webinars, newsletters, branding relatively small. data, training for managers and IT and upgrades. License includes personnel, assisting with policy campus conference kits, peer development, advocacy and review kits, ability to create open promotion. Full and partial support access or subscription-based packages available. journals. Promises unlimited support and 24 hours or less turn around time.

Software/platform/service Cost Free if unhosted. Some support for Single annual SaaS license. Cost is Free. initial setup is gratis. Call for quote. based on Carnegie list FTE schedule total campus population. Subscription includes up to five publishable journals. Advanced customization can be obtained for additional fee.

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Installation & Upgrades Easier than most other softwares to No upgrades necessary. Managed Upgrade difficulty Unknown. install and update yourself according to by Digital Commons off site. Installation process average users. Eprints Services keeps difficulty. No official support offered. repositories upgraded to latest versions, but major upgrades are only done with client agreement.

Obsolescence Eprints Digital Commons IR+ Originally released Developed by the University of Developed by Bepress in 2002 for Released in 2009 by the University of Southampton in 2000. California . Licensed Rochester by ProQuest from 2004 until 2007. From 2007 on offered exclusively though Bepress.

Most recent software release 3.3.10 May, 18 2012 6.8 released in June 2012 2.1 in 2011 Community Support/ Resources for Mailing list, announcements list, user Conference meet-ups, Google code group and wiki. users group meetings and conferences Collaboratory (a document sharing YouTube training videos. presentations. Membership offers site). LinkedIn group, webinars, training and development wiki, blog newsletter, tutorials. No local user and listserv access. groups in NY.

Total number of users #2 most popular open source #3 most popular open source 3 known users (New England repository software repository software Conservatory, UR, Lesley University)

Server maintenance Eprints Digital Commons IR+ Operating Systems , Solaris, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux (hosted service) Windows or Unix (Solaris) Redhat Fedora, Debian Ubuntu, Oracle

Databases LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, ) PostgreSQL (hosted) Postgres, Apache Ant, Tomcat Scripting Languages Perl intensive, Plug-in directory, XML, perl (hosted) Java CSS

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Data exportable (Perl-based) plugin architecture for bulk import export Support for MARC 21 file import and importing and exporting data export. Mass migration import export more difficult.

Formats & Metadata Eprints Digital Commons IR+ Supported file types Can store and manage most content Digital Commons stores and makes MARC 21, jpg, tiff, tiff, jpeg, png, gif types -- learning objects (SCORM) available for download any and bmp (maybe others as well?) support provided by third party discrete file type

File conversion Plug-in offers .doc into .pdf conversion Automatically converts Word, Unknown from the upload screen. Plug-ins also WordPerfect, and rtf files to pdfs. available to convert PDFs and images Recommends converting text files into various other image formats (png, into pdfs. Non-text files are made jpg etc.) available as uploaded.

Supported Metadata Standards Dublin Core, METS, BibTeX, DIDL, Dublin Core, Qualified DC (METS Dublin Core and Qualified Dublin EndNote, JSON, MODS, CSV, ORE, and MARC not supported) Core only OpenURL, RDF, Refer, RefMan, XML (Qualified DC and MARC not supported)

Authority Control Offers EPrints author browse with Does not appear to offer authority Yes. Offers author suggestions from autocompletion based on list currently control measures. existing list and collates multiple in repository. Autocompletion for author name forms under one journals and publishers from subject heading. SHERPA/ROMEO database. Does not strictly enforce authority control as new names can be added on the fly.

Back-end Interface Eprints Digital Commons IR+

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Statistical reporting Does not appear to be built-in. Can use Reports with download and Yes. Stats include downloads, plug-in like Tasmania Statistics package. referral information for each exclude web crawlers. See: article, series, department, or for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= the whole institution. Authors 7dYLbK_6xH8&feature=channel&list automatically receive monthly =UL download reports for their papers. Integrated with Google Analytics.

Record editing and quality control Generates checksums for bitstreams. Unknown. Unknown. (checksums) Duplicate report finding add-ons as well as item control page in admin that identifies item level issues to resolve.

End-user Interface Eprints Digital Commons IR+ Advanced and browse search Advanced search can be customized Browse by author, collection, Browse by collection, image or options extensively by field or subject. Standard discipline, document type etc. researcher (displayed visually on browse categories include author, Advanced search can limit by field, front page). Advanced search by college, subject, type, and year. campus, date range or format. publications, authors or sponsors Customizable categories and tabs. options. Indexing in major search engines Google recommended IR platform. Google recommended IR platform. Unknown Supports data harvesting and feeding. Content is optimized Google Scholar and is OAI compliant. Summon compatibility Yes Yes Unknown Mobile-device friendly Unknown A project started in 2007, but it is Unknown not clear where this effort is at now.

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Info. Display and sharing (including status, publication status, Customized email alerts and RSS Download count displayed on object citation #s) copyright and other administrative feeds. Download count sent to page. No citation numbers. information, and citation generation author in weekly updates. and statistics by objects and author are all part of the “out of the box” package.

Researcher Interface Eprints Digital Commons IR+ User authentication LDAP. Not Shibboleth friendly. LDAP LDAP (setup can create errors; if one user is entered incorrectly the whole thing might not go)

Submission process Documents are uploaded by end- Institutions can add their Offers workspace and version user, then transferred into an content to their repository control before submission. From optional editing/buffer area, and through batch uploads, by the workspace, objects are then are published to the archive. linking to external sites, or via a uploaded in a step-through Document upload phase offers submit form. process similar to DSpace, then "capture from URL" (including full they are submitted to archive. text). Embargos Ethos plug-in available. Some Embargo settings for electronic Unknown embargo functionality built-in. theses and dissertations

Journal publishing Content can be moved to and from Offers professional-grade No OJS with some customization work. publishing tools for journal creation. Can interface with OJS as well. Author collaboration Unknown "Tell a colleague" email Documents can be edited or functionality. emailed from within the workspace.

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Researcher pages Author search results only. SelectedWorks add-on IR+ Portfolio pages. Customizable available. Allows faculty to by researcher. Includes create and manage their own description, photos, links to personal researcher pages. research files both in and outside Content from SelectedWorks of IR (including within IR+ sites can be collected into the workspace). repository and vice versa.

Preservation Eprints Digital Commons IR+ Harvesting options SWORD OAI-PMH. UMASS Amherst OAI-PMH harvests from subject repositories.

Preservation/disaster recovery etc. Cloud, Preserv project Disaster recovery plan utilizing fail- Unknown over servers and regular on-site and off-site backups. Copies of repository content available to subscribers. Support for LOCKSS.

Symplectic Compatibility Yes Unknown Unknown

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