eprints.utm.my
Review
Reviewer: Mohd Amien M.Y.
Website adress: http://eprints.utm.my
Category: Repository
Software
Resources : http://www.eprints.org/software
Developer: University of Southampton
Main point:
a) Features of the system
Repository managers
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Lower the barrier for your depositors while
improving metadata quality and the value of your collection.
Depositors
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Time saving deposits
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Import data from other repositories and services
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Autocomplete-as-you-type for fast data entry
Researchers
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Optimised for Google Scholar
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Works with bibliography managers
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Works with desktop applications and new Web 2.0
services
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RSS feeds and email alerts keep you up to date
Developers
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Tightly-managed, quality-controlled code
framework
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Flexible plugin architecture for developing
extensions
Webmasters
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Easily integrate reports, bibliographic
listings, author CVs and RSS feeds into your corporate web presence
Institutions
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High specification repository platform for high
visibility, high quality institutional open access collections
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Conform with research funder open access
mandates
A better platform for a high quality repository. Backed by a support
team with expertise in the research, library and publishing industries, EPrints
3 is the platform for a variety of open source, bespoke and hosted repository
solutions.
b) How the system can help UTM
to effectively manage the data and information of the staff or student?
Login system. - http://eprints.utm.my/
has a login function but the public cannot access it. It seems that only the authorized person can
login into this site. The public can only use the system to find informations.
Secure login - When logging into eprints, both username and password
travel openly. Usually it is not a problem as eprints has its own
authenticating mechanism, and stealing an eprints password gives the intruder
very limited power. However when using centralized authentication (e.g., by
LDAP) then protecting the password is more important. To prevent sniffing,
login pages usually use secure connection. Here we discuss an easy way to set
up eprints to use encoded password traffic.
Resource: http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Secure_login
c) Disadvantages and advantages
of the system.
The most important rule is that
eprints can only be edited when they are in a user's workspace. That means that
to update an eprint, the user must either
- get someone with editor privileges to move the original eprint into their workspace and edit it in situ
- or create a new copy of the original eprint and edit that instead.
The advantage of the first approach is that it is direct and simple.
The disadvantage is that it leaves no record of the previous state of affairs —
the archive ceases to be a genuine mechanism for stable, long-term storage. It
may have repercussions for external users whose Web pages link to a particular
record, as they may find its information changes without warning. For example,
an unpublished technical report may suddenly become a journal article with an
updated title.
The disadvantage of the first
approach is that you may have to wait some days for the editor to respond to
the request.
The advantage of the second approach
is that it maintains the records in the database, and allows external users to
see that a particular journal article is a later version of a previous
technical report.
The disadvantage is that it
potentially leaves multiple records per publication, both of which will show up
in a search.
