It shares many of the features commonly seen in document management systems, but is primarily used for institutional repositories and scientific journals.

[2] EPrints has been developed at the University of Southampton School of Electronics and Computer Science and released under the GPL-3.0-or-later license.

EPrints was created in 2000[3] as a direct outcome of the 1999 Santa Fe meeting[4] that launched what eventually became the OAI-PMH.

[11] Version 3 of the software introduced a (Perl-based) plugin architecture for importing and exporting data, converting objects (for search engine indexing) and user interface widgets.

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