EPrints3: Continuous Developer and Community Driven Repository Development in an Ever-changing Research Landscape

The repository showdown contribution will demonstrate some of the key development highlights from the last year of EPrints3 development with contributions from both the main EPrints3 service providers and developers as well as the wider community. Development of the EPrints3 platform continues to represent emerging trends in the open research ecosystem as repositories both co-exist and co-develop alongside CRIS platforms, as well as data-archiving and preservation solutions. EPrints3 has also responded to changes in the research landscape including the growing prominence of research assessment exercises and the transitions of third party services such as IRUS-UK to OpenAIRE PROVIDE. The last year also sees a major development with EPrints becoming EPrints3 - a rebranding of the platform to truly reflect the breadth and pace of development as new versions of EPrints3 are released.