Definitions for "Eprints"
This causes some confusion as it is used to mean several things... eprint/e-print: An electronically published research paper (or other literary item). EPrints: A project at the Department of Elecronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton. Free software for producing an archive of eprints, provided by the project.
Eprints is free, open source software for generating an "Open Access" (OA) "Institutional Repository" (IR) that is compliant with the "Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting" (OAI-PMH).