EPrints 3.x platform class (White Rose, QUT, Southampton)
- Free allowance
- No quota model. EPrints has no per-user or per-collection byte accounting; the only constraints are the JavaScript max on the upload widget and Apache's LimitRequestBody.
- Verdict
- fails: identitythe identity required is not reachable without it
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- institutionno card, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported4 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No quota model. EPrints has no per-user or per-collection byte accounting; the only constraints are the JavaScript max on the upload widget and Apache's LimitRequestBody. unit unlimited; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Identity | institution institution |
| Egress | Direct, no CDN in front on the instances checked. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | unknown SWORD, OAI-PMH, cgi/ HTTP forms |
| Tooling | SWORD client / curl POST to cgi/ |
| Composes with | Structurally unbounded, but the write gate is deposit-medated: White Rose's own registration page tells depositors to go through their university's CRIS (Symplectic, PURE, myPublications) instead of registering. |
| Reliability | No resumable upload and no failure recovery — a >10 GB POST that drops must restart from zero. |
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Evidence 4
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/cgi/register | 200; 'To deposit an item you do not normally need to register here. Instead, please follow the appropriate link from the list below: University of Leeds staff via Symplectic Elements ... Sheffield ... myPublications ... York ... PURE' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.eprints.org/eptech/msg08776.html | 'We have had successful uploads of files of up to 50GB in the past' |
| 2026-10-21 | www.eprints.org/eptech/msg08775.html | 'I would normally advise against using EPrints for files larger than 10GB ... there is no in-built failure recovery' |
| 2026-10-21 | eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/register | https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/cgi/register — 403 |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "No quota model. EPrints has no per-user or per-collection byte accounting; the only constraints are the JavaScript max on the upload widget and Apache's LimitRequestBody.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 5
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read