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.
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.