For dynamic integration with other systems, EPrints 3.x has a wide range of available export formats for metadata and data.
Depending on your templates and configuration, the many export options may or may not be explicitly shown. If they are, they are usually on the Browse View pages of your repository.
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Even if they are not shown, we can often work out what their URLs might be.
For example in a typical View page from the SAS-Space repository, we find the dropdown box supporting options to export in Reference Manager format and EndNote format, among others. Try out any that are of interest and make a note of the URL it generates.
Compare also with the URL of the RSS feed, on the same page, and you will see that this is also part of the same suite of functions.
We can also do a similar thing with Latest Tool across the whole repository:
- http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/cgi/latest_tool?output=RSS2
- http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/cgi/latest_tool?output=EndNote
- http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/cgi/latest_tool?output=RIS
- etc
So if you have another library or CRIS system that needs dynamic interaction with an EPrints repository, find out if any of the existing export filters (as per the dropdown list on the View pages) might meet their needs. If the defaults filters aren’t enough, there are more available on the EPrints Files repository that your tech team can install, or you can develop new custom exporters that can be used in exactly the same way.
