As a person who is passionate in academic transmission of knowledge I found it
really important to have a repository where scholarly publications could be archived
and easily retrieved. My Institution / University does not have any such archiving
facilities. I sought the advice of my teacher (who else other than google) which gave
me some options of softwares which could be installed in a website. After a thorough
research I found Eprint software fitted the billing to the core. On top of it it came
free as it was open source. As with all open source software this software too lacked
documentation. None of the manuals I saw in the internet was complete. Even the
ones I had access to assumed that I had a basic fundamental knowledge of server
managment. I had to struggle for nearly 3 months before I hit “Eureka”.
Now I have embarked on creating an installation manual for the software which does
not assume that the reader has basic knowledge of server management. The codes
and illustrations in this book were taken from my own installation. I could have
fallen here and there while taking my baby steps towards completing this project. I
hope readers would appreciate this and forgive me for any errors if any in this
manuscript.