Publin allows you to upload and manage scholarly publications and expose them to the web. It is designed to be used by individual authors, groups or institutions. It aims at maximizing and speeding up the inclusion in major bibliographic databases in the area of computer sciences.
- Submit publications, via web form or BibTeX import
- Edit publication and author metadata
- Display, add, modify and delete citations for a publication
- Author-level metrics (h-index, tapered h-index, mf-index)
- Browse and view publications, authors, journals etc
- Basic search function
- Full text file up- and download
- Export publications to various formats (e.g. BibTeX, RIS, ...)
- Import publications in SCF and BibTeX format
- Meta tag support for getting indexed by search engines (e.g. Dublin Core, HighwirePress Tags)
- Modular system for easy extension of export, import or meta tag formats
- OAI-PMH interface for being able to register as OAI Data Provider
- User authentication and authorization system with assignable roles and permissions
- Template system for easy customization of the user interface (using HTML&CSS)
A live demo of version v1.0.0 is available at arkuuu.de/publin. A demo of the newer versions is currently not available.
A live demo of the OAI-PMH interface is available at arkuuu.de/publin/oai.
A web server with:
- PHP >= 5.3.14
- extension
mbstring - extension
fileinfo
- extension
- MySQL >= 5.5.38
Please note: PHP 5.3 has reached its end of life long ago. It is highly recommended to use the current version 5.6! See this link for more information.
Support for PHP 7 has not been tested yet, it may work.
- Download the current release
- Change the
config/Config.phpfile according to your needs - Create a new folder called
publinon your web server - Copy all files into this folder
- Open the
install/directory in your web browser and follow the instructions. - Important: Remove the
install/folder after the installation.
- Download the current release
- Replace the files on your server with the new ones.
- See the release notes for any database changes that you need to execute.
An update script may be available in the future.
If you encounter any problems or have any questions, feel free to open a new issue here.
This was a student project by Arne K. for his bachelor thesis at the University of Luebeck. View the task at ifis.uni-luebeck.de and the full thesis at arkuuu.de/publin/?p=publication&id=67
Publin has been extended by author-level metrics (h-index, tapered h-index, mf-index) during the bachelor thesis of Eric Oberesch (view this link for the task description).