Introducing Meru
Meru, developed by our partner Cast Iron Coding, ingests content from multiple upstream submission and curation systems such as Janeway, OJS, and DSpace, into a unified discovery and display platform. Administrators can mix and match content into different collections, customize templates for different community pages, and support a single access point to a rich portfolio of content. Meru meets a range of use cases, from a single library publisher that wants to unify content from a journal publishing platform and an institutional repository, to a consortial publisher that wants to aggregate content from multiple publishers.
Who is it for?
Library publishers looking for an open source repository platform that unifies content from journal publishing and institutional repository (IR) initiatives.
Library publishers looking for turnkey solutions that allow you to focus on publishing, not software updates.
Library consortia looking to provide economies of scale and greater visibility by aggregating content from multiple campus-based publishers.
Scholarly societies, university presses, looking for a modern, user-friendly journal portal integrated with a journal management system.
What can it do?
Deliver your full portfolio (from journals to student theses, and more) in attractive templates and flexibly organize content into collections.
Provide infinite customizability by putting structured data at the heart of the application.
Pull content from multiple submission systems, including Janeway, DSpace, and OJS (to start), into a single display layer.
Support multiple communities with customized landing pages and granular user permissions.
Take a tour of Meru’s features
Browse our sandbox to see what Meru can do for you and your content.
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Flexibly showcase your content. Add your organizational branding and customize for specific collections and communities.
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Meru’s built-in templates bring your content to life, making it easy for users to browse and engage with different types of publications.
Browse by issue, see all articles, post author guidelines and announcements, embed PDFs or HTML full text, and more.
See a collection of white papers
Organize content by series, year, department, and more. Include policies and submission guidelines, search within the collection, and more.
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Add biographical information, ORCID id, and other web presence links and see all of an author’s works on the platform.
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Track view and download counts for each item and visualize engagement on an interactive map.
Modular tools for mission-driven publishers.
The NGLP components are designed to be extensible and modular. Our pilot implementations launched in Spring 2022 test end-to-end solutions that combine Meru with Janeway and DSpace. The project expects to support additional platforms (such as OJS) in future versions.