About the Repository

This repository is running on GNU EPrints open repository software, a freely distributable repository system available from software.eprints.org. Other institutions are invited (and encouraged) to set up their own open repositories for author self-archiving, using the freely-distributable GNU EPrints software used at this site.

## Contact Information

Any correspondence concerning this specific repository should be sent to &adminemail;.

## Acknowledgements

### Pilot Project Team

Project Leader: | Dr Nigel Stanger, Department of Information Science
Project Sponsor: | Dr Graham McGregor, School of Business
Technical Manager: | Brent Jones, School of Business
Library Liaison: | Nicola McDowell, Library
Research Assistants: | Monica Ballantine
| Jeremy Johnston

### Standing Committee

- Sue Pharo, Library
- Mike Harte, ITS
- Professor Michael Hall, Department of Tourism
- Dr Graham McGregor, School of Business

### Other Contributors

Special thanks go to Professor George Benwell (Information Science) for providing the initial impetus for the project; and to Arthur Sale (University of Tasmania) and Eve Young (The University of Melbourne) for their help with setting up the repository.

Thank you also to the many people who have taken the time to comment on and assist with the project in various ways.

## About this Software

This site is running GNU EPrints / revision: &version;

GNU EPrints is free software developed by the University of Southampton, England.

For more information see eprints.org and software.eprints.org

## Technologies Employed and Supported

Powered by: MySQL, Apache Webserver, Perl, mod_perl, XML, DOM, ParaCite, GNU EPrints.

Supports: Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, VLit Transclusions, Valid XHTML, Valid CSS.

Part of: The GNU Project.

## Software Credits

Christopher Gutteridge - Designer and coder of EPrints version 2.

Mike Jewell - Pre-release testing. The initial versions of scripts for creating and installing an EPrints v2 package. Some coding assistance.

Harry Mason - Testing. Document to text conversion wrappers. Document icons.

Robert Tansley - Creator of EPrints 1 on which EPrints 2 is based.

Al Riddoch <ajr@ecs.soton.ac.uk> - Assistance in writing the "configure" script for the installer.

Jessie Hey and Pauline Simpson (as part of the TARDIS Project) - Feature suggestions and contributions to the default configuration of version 2.3.

Gui Power - Adapting the online help for version 2.

The orginal statstics generation code was written at the University of Melbourne, then modified and substantially rewritten by Christian McGee and Arthur Sale at the University of Tasmania (eprints@leven.comp.utas.edu.au). Support for EPrints short URLs and the MaxMind GeoIP database were added by Nigel Stanger at the University of Otago.

The free GeoLite Country database is provided by MaxMind LLC.

The document format icons come from the Gnome-mix icon set for KDE, compiled by mavvert and licensed under the GPL.

EPrints was developed at the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, England.