Scipedia's cloud solutions for institutional portals
Scipedia offers a flexible, scalable and easily customizable cloud hosting solution for institutional open science portals, based on the most reliable technology. Our hosting plans are designed to adapt to the needs of institutions of all sizes.
By teaming up with Scipedia, institutions can take advantage of simple, rapid, scalable and intuitive management procedures of their open science portals. Besides, they will benefit from all the technical advantages of Scipedia.com, including leading-edge social network tools, enriched web publishing, collaborative online edition tools, advanced support for documents/data/big-data repositories, etc.
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Basic plan
The Basic plan is our entry-level hosting plan and is conceived to provide a free way to help institutions of any size to have their institutional open science portal in Scipedia.
Scipedia's Basic hosting plan includes:
Customized institutional home page (basic customization, including logo and overview page)
Dedicated management panel
Free basic support and maintenance services
Institutional portal statistics (downloads, publication views per country and citations)
Publications list
Institution’s members profiles and directory
Discussion forum for every published document
Unlimited disk storage space for documents
Basic hosting plan is offered for free for any scientific or academic institution (subjected to Scipedia’s Terms of Use).
Premium Standard plan
The Premium Standard hosting plan includes all of the features in the Basic plan, plus advanced customization options, specialized support and more storage capacity. The institutional portal will be implemented as a microsite within Scipedia.
Advanced customized institutional portal (institutional image throughout the whole portal, including logo, background image and menu colors, etc.).
Management of access restrictions to content (public, private for user/group/institution)
Dedicated management panel
Interface with institutional CRIS
Dedicated online training course (2h)
Specialized technical support (priority support from 20 h/year)
Management of the advertising spaces in the portal for institutional announcements
Advanced statistics (portal visits by country, visits by categories)
Additional data and video storage space (from 1,5 GB/user)
Premium Standard hosting plan is offered from 5,900 € (initial payment) plus 2,000 €/year. For further information, please contact us.
Premium own-URL plan
The Premium own-URL hosting plan is designed to provide hosting services to premium institutions. Includes everything in the basic plan, plus:
Portal (profile, members and publications) operating under the institutional URL (the institutional portal will be implemented as a microsite within Scipedia).
Advanced customized institutional portal (institutional image throughout the whole portal, including logo, background image and menu colors)
Management of access restrictions to content (public, private for user/group/institution)
Interface with institutional CRIS
Dedicated online training course (4h)
Specialized technical support (priority support from 40 h/year)
Management of the advertising spaces in the portal for institutional announcements
Advanced statistics (portal visits by country, visits by categories)
Additional data and video storage space (from 2,0 GB/user)
Premium own-URL hosting plan is offered from 19.900€ + 4,100€/year. For further information, please contact us.
Reliable technology
Scipedia hosting services are based on the most reliable technology, offering:
the highest security, based on a multi-level approach
> 99.999% uptime service
highly responsive to increased levels of traffic thanks to auto-scaling
geographic redundancy
99.999999999% durability of stored data
data objects size up to 5 TB
volume and number of objects practically unlimited
Add-on options
Dedicated institutional portal curator (starting at 50 €/month)
Additional disk storage space, including big-data solutions
Scipedia's microsites
A Scipedia’s microsite is a cluster of pages linked to an institution that have specialized aesthetics and functionality. The microsite's home page can have its own domain name. The specialized microsite environment will generally include a button allowing entrance and exit towards the general Scipedia site.
Main characteristics
The microsite is associated with an institution. It can have specialized aesthetics and functionality.
When entering through a specific link to the microsite, the specialized aesthetics and functionality of the microsite are activated.
Once the microsite is activated, it maintains the image of the associated institution throughout the whole portal.
The personalized functionality of the microsite can include the use of customized email templates.
The specialized aesthetics and functionality of the microsite can be activated / deactivated by clicking on a button / menu at the top of the each microsite page.
The microsite activation button appears once a Scipedia user opens a document or collection linked to the microsite.
The main page of the institutional portal becomes the default page of the microsite.
There are users, lists of collections, documents, and statistics pages assigned to the microsite.
A collection is linked to a microsite if it is primary linked to the microsite’s institution.
A user is linked to a microsite if the institution is its primary affiliation.
Within the microsite, priority on the search results is given to the collections, documents and users linked to the microsite.
Unless it has restricted access, any document or collection linked to a microsite will be indexed by the generic Scipedia search engine.
When a user has entered Scipedia through a microsite, it is remembered with a cookie. Next time it enters Scipedia, the specialized aesthetics and functionality of the microsite are activated by default.
The advertising spaces of the microsite can be customized with specific announcements.
Microsite domain and indexing
Scipedia’s microsites can have an associated domain (URL).
When a microsite is activated, the associated domain is used. When it is deactivated, the user is returned to scipedia.com.
When entering through a link to the associated domain, the domain is maintained throughout the whole portal and the specialized aesthetics and functionality of the microsite are activated.
The documents linked to the microsite will be only indexed through scipedia.com domain.
When a user access scipedia.com through an external link, the specialized aesthetics and functionality of the microsite (and the associated domain) will be activated automatically if the microsite cookie is found.
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