Category Archives: Repositories

ePub downloads from EPrints

By Joss Winn | Published: February 25, 2010
I’m at JISC’s #dev8D conference. There’s no end of developer challenges but I’m not a developer. Still, here’s an idea that maybe someone will pick up and run with: The use of eBook readers is on the rise. Anyone with an iPhone, Android phone, as well as Kindles and Sony Readers, has an eBook reader. Institutional Repositories [...]
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WordPress: Beyond Blogging!!

By Joss Winn | Published: February 22, 2010
These are slides to accompany an eight minute ‘Lightning Talk’ for the dev8D conference in London, 24-27th February 2010. Each slide is a link to a blog post I have written on ways to use WordPress and WordPress Multi User, that are not about blogging. Brief notes are available from slide 12 onwards. WordPress: Beyond Blogging!! View more [...]
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Displaying a dynamic publications list from a repository on a staff profile page

By Joss Winn | Published: February 4, 2010
I repeat this to people all the time. If I write it down here, then I only have to share a link RSS feeds are a very popular way of syndicating content from one source website to another subscribing website. Some university websites, such as the Institutional Repository or University blogs, produce RSS feeds but [...]
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Feeding WordPress with EPrints: A Social Repo?

By Joss Winn | Published: February 2, 2010
I’ve just knocked up a ‘Social Repo‘ site and would be keen to get some feedback on the general idea. It’s a WordPress site in microblog mode driven by feeds from our repo via the FeedWordPress plugin. Just an experiment in automating something similar to our Post2Blog plugin. As a way of making EPrints content more ’social’, [...]
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