Why EPrints?
The reason for the use of EPrints software rather than a simple Web server is the need to capture the bibliographic information about each article — its authors, title, date of publication, journal, issue and page numbers. This metadata (data about data) is provided by the author when the paper is initially uploaded and stored with the paper. Subsequently this metadata is harvested by other OAI services (search engines, citation analysis agents etc.) so that the collected information from individual archives can be used to create ‘literature-wide’ services.
