Projects at Harvard is a free web site building tool available to groups at Harvard wishing to create a site for their project. It is one of two main Harvard installations of OpenScholar and a creation of Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science.

Projects at Harvard (and the personal site-oriented Scholars at Harvard) provide simple web site creation and management with a suite of features tailored to the particular needs of academics.
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Features

  • Create anything related to an academic site.

    Your mission statement, bios, publications, a blog, image galleries, class materials and more.

  • Get the word out.

    Create project announcements, resources, links, RSS feeds.

  • Control the look and feel of your site.

    Move useful widgets in and out of your site; change menus, and the overall look of your site in seconds.

  • Manage your events

    Easily build calendars; highlight upcoming events.

  • Smart Publishing

    The built-in content forms and WYSIWYG editor makes it simple to publish. You can begin writing content from almost anywhere on your the site.

  • Semantic URLs

    All pages are given URLs which correspond to the page's title. No need to suffer with nonsensical URLs such as: "hdc.do?keyword=icomon&tabgroupid=icb.tabgroup50611". Increase visibility and optimize the availability of your sites' pages in search engines, such as Google and Yahoo! with semantic URLs.

  • Category Tagging

    Organize content and enable visitors to find pages quickly with category tagging. The tools for multi-level category tagging come standard.

  • Pluggable Features

    "Out of the box ready" content features, which provide sections of your site. Features can also be set to "private", thus viewable to only members of the project.

  • Content Aggregation

    Keep the web sites fresh by pulling in content from relevant sources using RSS. Projects at Harvard provides built-in tools for RSS feeds making feeds easy to set up.

  • Interactive Layout Tool

    Design page layouts using a visual "drop-and-drop" blueprint of the site. The Layout Tool provides an easy (and fun!) way to arrange the content presentation on any site. Each site owner can design site-wide default layouts or create unique layouts for different sections of their site.

  • Share With Others

    Easily share web pages on other social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Project Managers have the ability to distribute bookmark links to a variety of social network sites quickly and easily.

  • Analytics

    Just provide your Google Analytics ID and data from your Projects at Harvard site will be sent to your Goggle analytics account automatically.

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