It's easy to use, powerful and built on Drupal. OpenScholar is designed with the scholar in mind, enabling you to have a feature-rich web site with elegant styles. Take a look at what it can offer:

Powerful Web Site Building

Easy Content Creation and Editing

Not interested in writing HTML? No problem. The built-in WYSIWYG editor will do the work for you so you can focus on the content at hand. You can begin writing content from almost anywhere and the Control Panel allows you a consolidated and straight forward way to manage all of your site's content.

Enable Features on the Fly

Make your web site dynamic as you go. OpenScholar comes with "out of the box ready" features, which provide content sections of your site. The Control Panel provides and an easy way to enable your site's features with a simple click.

Built-In Flexible Themes

Browse and choose from a variety of sleek web 2.0 themes with the Theme Picker tool. Each theme has the flexibility to use unique color schemes, or flavors, to match your site's desired look and feel.

The Interactive Layout Tool

Design your page layouts using a visual "drop-and-drop" blueprint of your site. The interactive layout tool provides an exciting way to arrange the content presentation of your site. You can design site-wide layouts or unique layouts for different pages of your site.

Smart Publishing System

Centralized Control Panel

Do all of your site management in one convenient place. The Control Panel is an intuitive dashboard that gives you control over all the workings of your site. The Control Panel interface is arranged in a simple and logical way. So you can find what your looking for... fast.

Category Tagging

Organize your content and enable visitors to find pages quickly with category tagging. Tools for category tagging come standard with the your site's publishing system.

RSS Feeds

Keep your web site fresh and new by pulling in content from various sources using RSS. OpenScholar provides built-in tools for RSS feeds making your feeds easy to set up.

Semantic URLs

Increase your site's visibility and optimize the availability of the pages in search engines, such as Google and Yahoo! with semantic URLs. All of your pages will automatically have semantic URLs the correspond with the page's title.

A Wealth of Social Publishing Tools

Manage and Invite Users

Maintain your own social network on your site. You can create user accounts for colleagues and other stakeholders and invite them to be members of you site. Collaborate on projects or exchange thoughts and ideas with your site's members. You have full control of your site's member status and access to your site.

Subscribe to Activity Rivers

Capture the pulse of what's happening in the scholarly world with live activity updates. You can choose to "follow" any of your fellow colleagues or site owner's activities and get live updates of new posts, replies, and other site activities.

Share With Others

Share your web pages on other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. You have the ability to distribute bookmark links to variety of social network sites quickly as easily. Make your pages known!