Research and academia

This group should probably have more organizers. See documentation on this recommendation.

This group is a meeting, discussion and collaboration space for all interested in using Drupal in the academia and research environments. Drupal is an excellent platform for running sites of departments, associations, centers, research projects, conferences, ejournals, or even entire universities.

This group was started following discussions around the excellent Biblio module. However, all topics related to using Drupal in an academic/research environment are welcome, as well as very specific issues related to Biblio development. Relevant discussions may occur in the Drupal in Education, Conference Organizing Distribution, Language Learning Communities or Curriculum and Training groups.

Building install profiles for DrupalEd

Posted by bonobo on June 25, 2007 at 3:17pm

From the longer post on the wiki page:

The DrupalEd project is now live on Drupal.org -- we are now ready to use the issue queue to centralize discussion on the different install profiles. In starting to discuss the profiles, I suggest we use the following format, as we will need to answer these questions as we build the various profiles.

DrupalEd install profiles

Posted by bonobo on June 19, 2007 at 3:35pm
Last updated by bonobo on Mon, 2007-06-25 15:13

Cooks research group

Posted by Anonymous on June 15, 2007 at 11:10am

I just launched a new site for my research group using Drupal. I just use use custom node types with the necessary fields for journal entries. I also have set up a editorial system for our research descriptions so that the professor can give things the okay before they post (using workflow module). I'm pretty pleased with the result so far.

Biblio handbook section

Posted by Anonymous on June 14, 2007 at 12:04pm
Last updated by talvi on Wed, 2012-10-24 12:34

Setup a monografie library

Setup the workflow

(moved to: Biblio documentation wiki)

How to use and set the E-publish module for it's navigation?

Posted by tky on June 1, 2007 at 5:58am

Hi, everyone. I am constructing a journal website.
My plan is build this site mainly by e-publish module, since my site is base on Drupal 5.0 but E-journals module have yet support it.

E-publish is not easy at setting.
Especially the navigation bar on the bottom of every articles, sometimes it display, sometime doesn't.
My intuition about this problem is that, it maybe the content types I choose to be "top story".
It seems only the "story" type will make the navigation bar display.
I don't know if this is correct.

Anyone who has this experience please give me some hints, thanks.

DrupalEd Now Available

Posted by bonobo on April 19, 2007 at 10:03pm

DrupalEd is now available for download --

The full announcement is available here --

Healing Thresholds

Posted by rz on April 18, 2007 at 4:51pm

http://autism.healingthresholds.com is a site we built for an organization that aims to bring scholarly writing and research to people affected by autism. Abstracts are presented at an 8th grade reading level. A glossary of terms helps members understand the jargon. A community-driven wiki provides an alternative to the formal research.

Modules we are using include biblio, glossary, cck and views.

Roger Lopez
Digett

How to separate long node into pages?

Posted by tky on April 1, 2007 at 3:51am

Hi, everyone:

(My English is not very well, it may has some mistakes in my grammar.)

I am constructing a online journal website. We hope that we could put all full text of articles on the internet.

But it seems the length of every articles are too long to be read. I am looking for some modules to solve this problem. Does anyone know how to separate single long node into pages? Please give me some suggestions.

Thanks a lot!

TKY

First pass at a site for DrupalEd

Posted by bonobo on March 16, 2007 at 3:56pm

Check it out here: http://drupaled.alphabetademo.org

The site can function as a blogging platform, a podcasting platform, a wiki, an informal learning space, a course management space, and/or as a replacement for an organizational intranet. Within the site, users can create working groups or communities of practice. The site also supports social bookmarking. The homepage of the site gives a more complete overview of the functionality.

Non-Drupal inspirations for research and learning

Posted by techczech on March 16, 2007 at 8:23am

I've just come across the fantastic software for social bookmarking for academics Connotea (see http://www.connotea.org) and started thinking about the many great projects out there which we could either learn from or integrate into Drupal. Of course, there are some obvious candidates such as Moodle, Elgg, Gallery2 that we all know about. But what about services such as Shelfari or LibraryThing? So I thought I'd start a thread where we could talk about what others are doing and how we can benefit from their hard work.

How to use the group?

Posted by huizache on March 7, 2007 at 5:08am

Hello all,

I understand this is the place where we can discuss drupal and academia issues, which modules to use for different tasks etc... but I don't know if this is the place where we should ask questions on how to use the modules, or how to solve problems with the modules? I was about to post a question here on the biblio.module but then though the forums where the right place for such questions: http://drupal.org/node/125455

I am using biblio.module on a test site here:
http://www.huizache.org/drupal-4.7.6/biblio

salud
huizache

online presentation software? how with drupal?

Posted by enky on February 27, 2007 at 12:16pm

hi,

is there any open software to make and view online presentations?

i would like to organize an online paper presentation event with drupal...

enky

how to organize a conference event in drupal5?

Posted by enky on February 22, 2007 at 5:47am

hi all,

i want this functionality for a conference website:

users can submit papers, emails are sent to the users to confirm that their paper been received
all the submitted papers will have a link to the conference event page
conference event node shows a list of submitted paper titles
submitted papers are only viewable by the Judge role members only
judges evaluate the papers

how to implement these?

thanks,
enky

New version: conference module 4.7-1.1

Posted by hoelterhof on February 21, 2007 at 1:29pm

Hello,

i just understood cvs and uploaded the first official version of the conference module for drupal 4.7. This is an improved version of the developement snapshot 4.7.x-1.x and it includes the whole functionality to organise an academic conference in drupal:

post papers
review papers
make a decision concerning a paper

Please see changelog.txt for further informations.

Modules useful on academic sites

Posted by techczech on February 19, 2007 at 4:14pm
Last updated by talvi on Wed, 2012-10-24 12:18

Let's make a list of modules that are useful for academic and research sites. Maybe we can slowly accumulate info on how they can be used.

Modules specific to the academic world

Biblio (where all this started)
OAI-PMH (for exposing the biblio nodes as metadata; http://drupal.org/project/oai2)
eJournal
Conference
Table of contents (nice for dealing with long, structured documents)

What are you most interested in discussing in this group

Posted by techczech on February 17, 2007 at 3:31pm

Biblio module

38% (12 votes)

Maintaining eJournals

9% (3 votes)

Organizing conferences

0% (0 votes)

Showcasing community/project/lab/department sites

13% (4 votes)

All of the above

38% (12 votes)

Most of the above (please specify in comments)

0% (0 votes)

None of the above (please comment)

3% (1 vote)

Total votes: 32

Biblio documentation wiki

Posted by techczech on February 17, 2007 at 3:23pm
Last updated by austinharper on Sun, 2015-10-04 23:06

The Bibliography Module needs better documentation and Wikis seem to be ideal for working on manuals. Anything that gets created here can then be moved over to the http://drupal.org/node/111016. I copied what is there now here:

Overview

The Bibliography Module allows you to create and maintain bibliographic lists of publications. The full (HTML) text of the publication can be included if so desired. Other files such as PDF or Word documents can be attached using the upload module.