Optional Features

In the admin area, under Settings → Features, you can manage the variety of optional features in OSIRIS and either activate or deactivate them. The features are displayed in the menu on the left accordingly. Please note that no rights are assigned to these features by default. You must assign these accordingly in the admin area under → Roles and Rights.

Here you will find a list of all available features:

OSIRIS Portfolio

The OSIRIS portfolio is a publicly accessible website that showcases your institute's research activities. When you activate the portfolio here, you can manage the visibility settings for user profiles, activities, and more. In addition, the portfolio API is activated, which only provides the selected information.

Projects&Proposals

OSIRIS can manage complete project lifecycles, from proposal submission to project reporting. By activating this function, you can create and manage projects and proposals within OSIRIS. It is possible to define your own project types and manage data fields.

Nagoya Protocol Compliance

The Nagoya Protocol is an international agreement that aims to ensure the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources. OSIRIS can be configured to ensure compliance with the Nagoya Protocol.

Teaching modules

It is possible to centrally manage teaching modules (e.g. at universities) and add them to activities, such as lectures or seminars. By enabling this feature, you can create and manage teaching modules within OSIRIS. To use teaching modules within activities, use the teaching module datafield.

Research Topics

Research topics can be used in OSIRIS to define the thematic focus of scientific research conducted by researchers or research groups. As an administrator, you can change the term research topics here and adapt it to your needs.

Infrastructures

Research infrastructures are central resources such as equipment, facilities, data, libraries, or virtual platforms. As an administrator, you can change the term research areas here and adapt it to your needs.

Events

The Events function can be used to document conferences, meetings, or similar events in OSIRIS and link them to people and activities.

Tags

Tags can be used to label and categorize activities, projects and events. By enabling this feature, you can create and manage tags within OSIRIS. Once activated, you can manage tags in the content section of the admin panel.

Research Trips

The add-on requires an activity type called travel that has the following data fields: status and either countries or country.

Quarterly reporting

OSIRIS reminds users every three months to update their activities and submit them for reporting. The controlling dashboard then provides an overview of all those who have not yet updated their data.

Quality workflows

You can enable a quality workflow for activities. This means that users can submit their activities for review, and an admin or editor can then approve or reject them.

Journals

Here you can rename the Journals feature according to your needs and enable/disable the automatic download of metrics.

Drafts

This feature allows users to save their entries as drafts and complete them later.

Imports

Here you can allow the import of user data from Google Scholar and/or OpenAlex.

Profiles

Here you can enable/disable the display of the latest publications and new colleagues on the user home page.

Guests

Here you can activate whether guests can be registered in OSIRIS and whether there should be external guest forms to complete the registration.