Publication & People repository

• A complete entity model covering publications and researcher profiles, fully cross-linked. Supported publication types include journal articles, book chapters, monographs, textbooks, theses at all levels and more. Researcher profile pages are independent entities, linked to the full body of their work.

Discovery & Access

• Advanced faceted search with filters and flexible result sorting. In-browser PDF and Office file preview – no download required. Metadata export in BibTeX, RIS, and Dublin Core XML. Custom branding styled to the institution’s visual identity. Full WCAG compliance built in from the start.

Analytics & Standards

• Usage statistics visualised on a world map. Co-authorship collaboration graph. SDG classification tagging against the UN Sustainable Development Goals. LaTeX formula rendering in titles and abstracts. Ready for connection to external metrics services including Altmetric, PlumX, and Dimensions.

Administration & Control

• Role-based access control with Administrator, Editor, Author, and Reader roles. Collection-level read/edit permissions. User groups and directory management. Collection visibility settings for logged-in and anonymous visitors. File-level access rights including embargoes, time limits, and IP-restricted access. AI Bot Defense – token-based protection against data-harvesting crawlers.

Integrations

• Native connections to ORCID (author identification), ROR (institutional identification via REST API), OpenAIRE (metadata export and funding information import), OAI-PMH, CORE (full-text retrieval by DOI), CrossRef & OpenAlex (bibliographic metadata), Google Scholar indexing, and COAR-compatible repositories.