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Module Description:

The Tripal Publication Module provides the functionality for adding, editing, deleting and accessing academic publications, entered by the user.This module also allows a time limited search, specified by the user, which searches the PubMed extracts and saves acedemic puplications.

Setup Instructions:

1. Set Permissions: The publication module supports the Drupal user permissions interface for controlling access to publlication content and functions. These permissions include viewing, creating, editing or administering of publication content. The default is that only the original site administrator has these permissions. You can add roles for classifying users, assign users to roles and assign permissions for the publication content to those roles. For a simple setup, allow anonymous users access to view publication content and allow the site administrator all other permissions.

2. Set Publication Type Controlled Vocabulary: The select list for setting the publication type is controlled be a controlled vocabulary (cv)

   • Before you can add any publications you need to create/load this cv. There is a limited cv included in this module. To use it, you need to load it using the OBO Loader included with Tripal.
   • After the controlled vocabulary is loaded you need to set it to be used for the publication module. To do this, go to Publication->Configuration, select it in the controlled vocabulary ' select list and click save configuration.

Features of this Module:

• Configuration (Search For Academic Publications): The search capability implemented in this module allows a user to search, by remote connection , the PubMEd database for articles that relate to key search words, chosen by the user.The "search keys" are used to search through Publication titles and when one of the key words is matched in a title, the recognized article will be saved to the database.

  • Choose a Controlled Vocabulary:The controlled vocabulary list is a set of terms
  • Set Search Key Words:The search keywords, are the user entered key terms, in which the publications in the PubMed database can be recognized by. The user may enter any number of search terms, as by adding more search terms, the search will limit the results to those in which all of the search terms appear in the publication title.
  • Set a time search interval:The search term interval represents a pre-set ammount of time for the search. The time search interval must be entered in minutes. This allows the module to automatically search the PubMed database in a predetermined time interval.

• Creating a Publication:

  To Create,update/delete a given property of a publication:When Creating a Publication it is neccessary to enter the requried fields in the form. These are marked with an astrix and if they are not entered upon completion a warning will be issued and the user is forced to fill in these entries. The author field, requires a given/surname/suffix to be entered. To add the author to the publication, the add author button is to be pushed. The user is able to add as many authors to the publication as needed.