ePrints 3...what happened to the first 2

Over the weekend, I took my last two Praxis exams! Thank goodness that is out of the way. Now I actually have time to focus on my four classes for this summer. I decided to start and hopefully complete the ePrints 3 assignment, between today and tomorrow. Who knows if this will actually happen, knowing my luck it will take me three or four days.
Well, it took me a while to figure out how to actually log onto ePrints 3. I had to go back to last week’s discussion and find the web address. Once that was done, I felt like I was all set to start. Except, I had no idea what ePrints 3 did. Was it a search engine or a place to store materials? After a few minutes of exploring I figured it out. So it was on to step two, finding sources. I went directly to the VPN network at Pitt and began looking through EBSCOhost, in hopes of locating some great articles. I found my first one pretty quickly, but I had no idea how to up load it to ePrints 3. So after poking around ePrints for a few more minutes I thought I had it figured out. I saved the article to my computer and then began the process of uploading it. It took forever for the system to upload and after ten minutes I closed the web browser and started over again. This time I was successful in uploading the article, the next step was to include extra information, but by that time I had lost the article (since I had to close out my other browser) and start looking for the article again. That’s where I’m at right now and I decided to take a break because it’s driving me crazy. I figured I would write a post and then go back and find at least ten items today. We’ll see if that happens, because ePrints might make me so stir crazy that I’ll give up for the day.
Looking over the rest of the week I’m guessing that I will complete the ePrints assignment and begin the next one. My hope is to get everything done well before the end of the course. The only problem with that is I’m not quite sure what I would blog about then! Okay, well I am off to work on this ePrints thing and do some other work. Have a great day everyone!