It's easy to use, powerful and built on Drupal. OpenScholar is designed with institutions and scholars in mind, enabling you to have a feature-rich web site with elegant styles. Take a look at what it can offer:
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.
Make your web site dynamic as you go. OpenScholar comes with "out of the box" apps, providing pre-polished content sections of your site. The Control Panel provides and an easy way to enable your site's apps just one mouse-click away.
Browse and choose from a variety of sleek, adaptive 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.
Design your page layouts using a visual "drag-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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!