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ePrints UK
The ePrints UK project is developing a series of
national, discipline-focused services through
which the higher and further education community
can access the collective output of e-print
papers available from compliant Open Archive
repositories, particularly those provided by UK
universities and colleges.

• Outputs
• Seach facility and browse facilities
• Comprehensive Portal Statistics
• Web Services (name authority, automatic subject
  classification, citation analysis services, etc)
• Workshop series and Supporting studies
• Project Web site

• Outcomes
• Functional eprints aggregator service for UK
  eprints
• Availability of portal services using RDN
  Include
• Increased institutional awareness of ePrints
  harvesting technology

• Benefits
• Demonstrator of harvesting technology
• Metadata enhancement using web services
• Basis for implementation advocacy

Discipline-focused views of available e-prints
can be provided through the use of an automatic
subject-classification Web-service offered by
OCLC. The project is experimenting with name
authority web services (offered by OCLC) and
hopes to experiment with citation analysis web
services (offered by the University of
Southampton) to enhance the metadata harvested
from available archives.
http//www.rdn.ac.uk/projects/eprints-uk/