Creating Content

Dataverse List Widget

The dataverse list widget allows you to display your dataverse information based on your Dataset Persistent Identifier by either the DOI or the HDL. It includes a search bar for ease of use. 

Need help finding your Dataset Persistent Identifier? Learn how to here: http://docs.openscholar.harvard.edu/dataverse. Note: this widget should be placed in the main content area, not in sidebar.

1. Go to your Control Panel, click to expand Appearance and click Layout...

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Dataverse Search Box

The dataverse search widget allows your site visitor to search your Dataverse on your OpenScholar site. When creating the widget, you'll be able to select your Identifier by either the DOI or the HDL.

1. Go to your Control Panel, click to expand Appearance and click Layout


2. Select Add new widget and click on the Dataverse search...

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Dataverse Dataset Citation Widget

The dataverse dataset citation widget allows you to display your citations based on your Dataset Persistent Identifier by either the DOI or the HDL.

Need help finding your Dataset Persistent Identifier? Learn how to here: http://docs.openscholar.harvard.edu/dataverse. Note: this widget should be placed in the main content area, not in sidebar.

1. Go to your Control Panel, click to expand Appearance and click Layout

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Dataverse Dataset Widget

The dataverse dataset widget allows you to display (one of) your Dataverse Datasets. When creating this widget, you'll add your "Persistent Identifier" by either the DOI or the HDL - see step 3 below.

Need help finding your Dataset Persistent Identifier? Learn how to here: http://docs.openscholar.harvard.edu/dataverse. Note: this widget should be placed in the main content area, not in sidebar.

1. Go to your Control Panel, click to expand Appearance...

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Unpublishing Pages

OpenScholar allows for pages to be unpublished (not viewable to site visitors other than Site Administrators). You can unpublish pages you are working on and publish when they are ready.

To unpublish a page:

1. Click the large gear to edit page settings

2. Select the "Publishing options" link in the page settings, then Deselect "Published to this site"

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Publications Settings

The Publications App provides settings which allow you to customize the bibliographic format, display options and more for the default Publications section.

To edit your Publications settings go to your Control Panel. Under Settings, select App Settings and then Publications.

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Section Navigation Widget

Understanding Section Navigation Widget

The section navigation widget is a system generated widget that gets automatically created and added to your page when a subpage is created from the page. The pages within the section navigation is a "section".

The section navigation provides a structural & hierarchal view of the section and allows your site visitors to navigate to these subpages.

The section navigation widget is only available when using Basic Pages.

Example of a section navigation

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Adding a Class to a page

Custom CSS classes can be created and applied to the body tag of basic pages. Like class names applied to a widget container, custom body classes can then be used for custom theming purposes.

In order to enable the ability to allow custom class to be added to basic pages, a sites administrator needs to:

1. Create a custom role and assign a member or member(s) who would could use this advanced feature.  ...

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More Like This Widget

The More Like This widget allows users to display a list of links to related content.

Adding a More Like This widget 

  1. Click to expand Appearance and select Layout as shown below: 
  2. Select Add new widget and click on 'More like this' from the list, as shown below:
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Publications: Types Widget

This widget will display and group publications by their type (books, journals, etc.).

Adding a Publications Types widget 

  1. Click to expand Appearance and select Layout as shown below: 
  2. Select Add new widget and click on 'Publications: Types' from the list, as shown below: 
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Feed Reader Widget

OpenScholar's Feed Reader lets you to subscribe to RSS Feeds from other sites and include the results on your own. This widget allows you to put those results into a box in any region of your site. This box can display any or all of the feeds you've already added to your site via the Reader App.

Adding a Feed Reader widget 

  1. Click to expand Appearance and select Layout as shown below: ...
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Pages