J! Research

J!Research is a component for Joomla! 1.5 which allows for management of research-related work such as; publications, projects, and theses categorized by research area.

J!Research is oriented to University researchers and research departments which utilize or plan to adopt Joomla! as their content management system for publishing research.

Features:

• Management of Projects, Areas, Publications, Theses, Staff, Facilities and Cooperations.
• Automatic Inline Citation and Bibliography Generation
• APA, MLA, IEEE, Chicago, CSE and Vancouver Citation Styles
• Bibutils 3.x Integration
• Publications Import/Export in MODS, RIS, and Bibtex formats
• Multilingual Support

What is new in this release:

• This version has a view to categorize staff members by position.
• It adds CVs in member profiles.
• It fixes a bug when importing publications.

What is new in version 2.0:

• This version adds native and exclusive support for Joomla! 2.5.x, management of publications, staff members, research areas, and projects, and a new content plugin for citations (not inline).

What is new in version 2.0 Beta 1:

• This version supports separation of former and current members in the staff view, adds a Joomla! search plugin, can show full texts and online versions for publications in default and tabular views, and fixes multiple minor bugs.
• This is a testing release which is not recommended for production sites.

What is new in version 1.2.2:

• Removal of fatal errors in staff admin.
• Addition of member position content element for Joomfish.
• Addition of sorting by month
• [SECURITY FIX] replacement of JRESEARCH_ALLOWRAW filters for JRESEARCH_ALLOWHTML in descriptions.
• Cleanup of authors before mapping to staff member in bibtex importation.
• Correction of bug related to file uploads in Firefox for Windows.

What is new in version 1.2.1:

• Translation key corrections and rearrangement of parameters.
• Updated to Bibutils 4.10 for Unix platforms.
• Inclusion of a filter for former members in staff view.
• Initial support for publication types as plugins.
• Fixes in extensibility and support for publication type plugins.

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• Support for multilingual content (J!Fish compatibility).
• Support for breadcrumbs.
• Improved control for selection of authors and members.
• Support for new publication types: online source, digital source and electronic article.
• Inclusion of categories for cooperations.
• New control for authors selection.
• Ability to export publications from frontend.
• Ability to change the type of a publication.
• Parameters reorganization for frontend views.
• Ability to import publications from frontend.
• Support for aliases.
• Mapping of authors to staff members in publications import.

What is new in version 1.2 Beta 2:

• Resolution of Secunia Advisory SA39079 for 1.1 branch. Correction of control for staff import. Removal of fatal error when importing publications. Missing translation key in facilitiy menu description. Correction of issue #19478 and reestructuration of publications database scheme. so that views are not required anymore. Movement of common helper classes to admin workspace. Correction of authors and pubtype filter in default publications list. Update for german translation on admin pages. Small enhacement for pagination of filtered results. Spanish language ready for the 1.2 release. Correction of several bugs in frontend views.

What is new in version 1.1.4.3:

• Removal of fatal error in publications frontend view. If you have 1.1.4.2 installed, just replace file {Joomla_path}/components/com_jresearch/controllers/publications.php with this one: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/jresearch/scmsvn/?action=browse&path=/*checkout*/tags/1.1.4.3/site/controllers/publications.php&revision=594

What is new in version 1.2 Beta:

• Enhancements in frontend markup. Complete reorganization of menu parameters. Ability to import publications from frontend. Corrections in languages files. Support for aliases in all entities. Revamp of control for importing members from Joomla! users table.

Requirements:

• Joomla!