Education Solutions
OpenScholar is a Drupal distribution pre-configured for higher education institutions. Universities and colleges are enabled to streamline the process of creating turnkey websites for professors, researchers, and students. Developed by faculty members at Harvard University’s Institute of Quantitative Social Science, OpenScholar provides a rapid deployment platform for university microsites, simplifying the site creation process without the need for IT assistance.
Built by academics for higher education institutions, OpenScholar combines the latest research and academic features with the leading open source social publishing platform to meet the growing online needs of universities and colleges.
Centralized platform built to grow
With a centrally managed Drupal infrastructure based on Organic Groups, IT organizations can optimize OpenScholar sites for performance, scalability and security while supporting hundreds of faculty and student websites.
Self-service, turnkey site deployment
OpenScholar offers pre-configured content types, modules and site templates to enable any user to select their site elements and get a new site instantly, without IT involvement.
Complete flexibility or uniform
brand consistency
OpenScholar can do it all, from allowing academics to completely customize their entire website, to creating uniform university brand consistency. You decide which level flexibility is right for your university, and OpenScholar will meet your needs.
Promote faculty research
and collaboration
Create easy-to-use websites for faculty members seeking to aggregate, share, and promote their research. Users can collaborate with colleagues and engage in projects with fellow academics and students.
