OAI-PMH harvesting
Approved discovery partners can harvest public metadata records through standard repository protocols.
Metadata access
Discovery-friendly repository metadata.
Inrep Scholar supports responsible metadata sharing for libraries, discovery systems and institution websites while protected files remain governed by access policy.
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/oai?verb=Identify200OAI-PMHHarvest public metadata
RSS updatesFollow new records
ExportsDC, DataCite, RIS, BibTeX
RSS updates
Institution and national feeds help users follow newly published records without exposing protected files.
Metadata exports
Public records include citation and metadata formats such as Dublin Core, DataCite, RIS and BibTeX.
Identity & single sign-on (OpenID Connect)
Inrep Scholar can act as a standards-based OpenID Connect relying party, so an institution's own identity provider becomes the login screen for InRep Scholar instead of a separate password.
Works with any standards-based IdP
Supply a discovery URL (/.well-known/openid-configuration) and a client ID/secret, and users move between InRep Scholar and the institution's other applications using the same identity. It works with any provider that publishes an OpenID Connect discovery document and signs ID tokens with RS256 (for example Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, Auth0 or Keycloak), and is not tied to any single vendor. Students and researchers can also sign in with Microsoft school accounts.
Verified, not just trusted
ID tokens are cryptographically verified (RS256 signature against the provider's published keys, plus issuer, audience, expiry and nonce checks) before a session is created — this is a real OIDC relying-party implementation, not a password-forwarding shortcut.
One callback URL, per-institution providers
Each institution configures its own identity provider in the admin panel; sign-in starts at /{institution}/sso/login. Existing accounts are matched by verified email by default, with an opt-in setting to create accounts automatically on first sign-in.
Need a discovery or identity integration?
Contact the Inrep Scholar team to plan a metadata or single sign-on integration that matches your institution policy.