Welcome to the new HofPrints service. The system provides many features:

• Powerful database engine
• Finer-grained browse-by-subject feature
• Subscription alerting service, allowing you to instruct the archive to inform you of new articles arriving in the archive in your chosen subject area
• Powerful search feature, allowing fine-grained searches of the archive
• Easy to use document upload interface
• Open Archive interoperability, allowing the archive to become part of a global on-line research archive.

The archive is running on Prints open archive software, a freely distributable archive system available from Eprints.org. The open archives interoperability is achieved using the open archives software developed by Cornell University.

HofPrints is a service to two constituencies:

• For AUTHORS, it provides a way to make their pre-refereeing preprints and their refereed, published reprints available to the world scholarly and scientific community on a scale that is impossible in paper.
• For READERS, it provides free worldwide access to the primary scholarly and scientific research literature on a scale that is likewise impossible in paper.

Other institutions are invited (and encouraged) to set up their own archives for author self-archiving, using the freely-distributable EPrints software used at this site.

More information on open archiving can be found at the Open Archives Initiative site. Information is also available at EPrints.org. Technical information is also available about the Santa Fe Convention to which this archive adheres, including support of the Open Archives Metadata Set and the Open Archives Dienst protocol subset.

Any correspondence concerning this specific archive should be sent to Susan.S.Lukesh@Hofstra.edu. Please be sure to read the help pages and the frequently asked questions (FAQ) first, since the answer to your question may be there.