Maintenance, support and hosting for EPRINTS repository software and drugsandalcohol.ie website

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The Health Research Board (HRB) is the lead agency in Ireland supporting and funding health research. We provide funding, maintain health information systems and conduct research linked to national health priorities. Our aim is to improve people's health, build health research capacity and make a significant contribution to Ireland's knowledge economy. Our latest Corporate Strategy clearly outlines how we hope to achieve this working in partnership with other organizations. In 2009 the NDC developed a new website. As part of this project we created a repository for Irish drugs and alcohol research literature. The repository was built using EPRINTS open source repository software, which is used by a number of large academic institutions throughout the world to manage their own research repositories. We require a software developer to provide support and maintenance our EPRINTS system and for the www.drugsandalcohol.ie website, to develop a number of new functions for the system and to manage the hosting of this site. EPRINTS system on drugsandalcohol.ie The NDC research repository and the www.drugsandalcohol.ie website are built on an EPRINTS core. EPRINTS is a repository application used in research institutions and universities around the world. The website uses a cross authentication module, implemented in PHP, which allows a great deal more flexibility in loading content and modifying web pages than in a normal EPRINTS repository. The NDC has used this authentication module extensively to provide access to restricted documents and to manage permissions around use of data resources.