EPrints
Digital document management system with a flexible metadata and workflow model primarily aimed at academic institutions.
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Still maintained? Yes: 12 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v3.4.7 (Aug 2025).
At a glance
EPrints quick facts
- Health score
- 44/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 45
- Last commit
- 10 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v3.4.7, Aug 2025
- Licence
- GPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "EPrints is a document management system aimed at Higher Educational institutions and individuals. EPrints has been used to provide Open Access to research results, sharing of educational resources and providing portfolios of work. It has a flexible metadata and workflow model to support varied business needs as well as interaction with other Web and institutional systems."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
EPrints scores 44/100, #6 of 6 in Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software: 12 commits in the last 90 days earn 14.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v3.4.7, 1.2 years ago) earns 13.5 of 25, 45 stars add 6.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 21.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 14.0 / 35
12 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 13.5 / 25
v3.4.7 released 1.2 years ago
- Stars 6.7 / 20
45 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 12
- Last 90 days
- 84
- Last 12 months
- 10 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #6 of 6 tools in Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software by health , just below Islandora (#5) .
Details
| Licence | GPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | Perl |
| Latest release | v3.4.7 · 1.2 years ago |
| Stars | 45 |
| Open issues | 14 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | eprints/eprints3.4 ↗ |
EPrints vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with EPrints (Document Management - Institutional Repository and Digital Library Software), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DSpace | 82 | 1.1k | BSD-3-Clause | today |
| Samvera Hyrax | 79 | 201 | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| Fedora Commons Repository | 65 | 253 | Apache-2.0 | today |
| InvenioRDM | 54 | 185 | MIT | yesterday |
| Islandora | 48 | 158 | GPL-3.0 | 2 months ago |
| EPrints (this tool) | 44 | 45 | GPL-3.0 | 10 days ago |
EPrints: common questions
Is EPrints still maintained?
EPrints had 12 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 10 days ago; the latest tagged release, v3.4.7, is from 1.2 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.