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Islandora Scholar is a suite of modules designed to help Islandora function as an Institutional Repository (although some features are helpful in other use cases as well). It is unique compared to other Islandora modules in terms of the number of features it provides as well as the vast amount of submodules that it contains. It is helpful to think of Scholar as being a kind of scholarly content solution pack due to the new content models it provides (citation & thesis), but it also differs from other solution packs in that it provides new functionality that may be used with other content models (cmodels) as well.

Sample Features

  • New citation & thesis content models
  • Sherpa/RoMEO integration
  • Creation of new objects from EndNote XML or RIS files exported from other systems
  • Creation of new objects from Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs) and PubMed IDs (PMIDs)
  • Suppression of objects from display or disable viewing/downloading of particular datastreams
  • Exporting of collections of bookmarks as RIS, RTF or PDF files
  • User-selectable dynamic citation styling using Citation Style Language (CSL) files
  • Extra HTML metadata to assist with Google Scholar indexing

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Without an API key, Sherpa/RoMEO provides up to 500 requests per day. With an API key, requests are unlimited.   Sherpa/RoMEO API registration is free-of-charge as of spring 2018.

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How uploaded PDFs are handled by Scholar can be configured at Administration » Islandora » Solution Pack Configuration » Scholar » PDF Configuration (admin/islandora/solution_pack_config/scholar/pdf). 

Like the PDF solution pack, Scholar supports extracting searchable text from uploaded PDFs. This relies on the PDF having an embedded text stream (e.g. a born-digital PDF, or one with OCR already performed and embedded). Scholar will not generate OCR from raw scans. Consider converting text-filled images with no text streams to TIFFs, and using the Book Solution Pack with OCR enabled. 

The sizes of the thumbnail (TN) and cover page (PREVIEW) datastreams, which are derived from the first page of the PDF using imagemagick, are also configurable here.

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