Intern:EPIC

ePIC is the Open Access and publication repository of the Alfred Wegener Institute, accessible at
 * http://epic.awi.de

(1) ePIC is used as the citation database for any papers, presentations and posters around data management with Pangaea. Citations can be entered with an AWI user login under Author/New. For the Organizational Unit under AWI specific PANGAEA must be choosen.

A list of all citations related to PANGAEA is provided through a predifined query.

(2) As part of the PANGAEA Network, ePIC is also used as a document archive. Metadata with related pdf are stored in the documentations part of ePIC. For the definition and editing of citations, a login to the AWI Intranet (=login to ePIC) is required. To add a citation of a new document to epic the reqired fields are:
 * Author(s), Year, Title and Source

If the citation is defined and the document is uploaded, ePIC sends a handle via email to info(a)pangaea.de within 12 hours. The handle is used in Pangaea as a stable link, e.g. in the fields Reference/URI or Data set/URL Data details or as part of a free comment text.
 * example with handle linking to the paper of a reference
 * example with handle used for further details and in the Comment

The entry of documentation citations in ePIC is restricted to librarian status (hgrobe(a)pangaea.de). If more than 30 citations need to be entered, a list of citations with pdf-files can be imported via a script.

Object type documentation in ePIC is restricted for Pangaea use. Documentations are not archived with metadata, do not have a splash page and thus are not be harvested by OAI-PMH.