Feature Highlights¶

Powerful tools for collaboration through the research lifecycle¶

Record versioning, with persistent access to earlier versions
Metadata-only records allow inclusion of works stored elsewhere, making them discoverable and allowing them to appear in institutional collections
Non-public draft records and restricted-access published records support the need for privacy during some phases of the research and editorial cycles.
- DOIs can be reserved but only registered when record becomes public
- Access grants for fine-grained access control to restricted and draft works
Flexible public or private collections supporting both open-access publication and private collaboration during the research and writing phases.
- Assign users permissions as collection readers, curators, or managers
- Sub-collections (coming in 2026) will allow for, e.g., collections for academic units, departments, and teams within a parent institutional collection

Based on the DataCite schema
On-demand instant access in a variety of other standard formats via UI and API
- DataCite, MarcXML, DCAT XML, Citation Style Language, BibTeX, Dublin Core XML, GeoJSON, KCWorks/InvenioRDM
- Including JSON, JSON-LD, XML, and CSV options
Support for a **wide variety of resource types **with extensions to DataCite’s schema
- including some that are poorly served by traditional repositories (e.g., 3d models, podcasts, performances, blog posts, peer reviews, legal comments, physical objects, etc.)
- All DataCite compatible and keyed to other resource type vocabularies (COAR, CSL, EUREPO, Schema.org) for easy transformation and export
Acknowledgement of a **wide variety of contributor roles **with a DataCite compatible custom vocabulary.
- Allows clear identification of supporting roles (e.g., editor, producer, researcher, transcriber), administrative roles (e.g., committee member, data manager), and creative contributions (e.g., artisan, choreographer, performer)
Comprehensive subject vocabularies
- FAST subject headings (over 2 million subjects across 9 facets)
- Homosaurus subjects for better coverage of LGBTQIA+ topics
- Complemented by free user-defined keywords
Auto-generate citations and bibliographies via UI or API
- APA, Harvard, MLA, Vancouver, Chicago, IEEE

Every public work assigned a DataCite-registered DOI
- A “concept DOI” for the work as a whole that always points to its newest version.
- A separate DOI for each version of the work, allowing precise reference to a specific version
Every work is also assigned an OAI identifier for use in the OAI-PMH protocol
For other entities
- ORCID for individuals
- ROR for institutions and organizations
- OFR for funders
- iso639 for languages

OAI-PMH feeds
FAIR signposting, providing machine-readable documentation of the metadata formats, media, and resources available for each work
IIIF manifest for image resource types, accessible via public API
COAR Notify (coming 2026)

Deposits sync to a user’s ORCID profile (if they opt-in for DataCite-ORCID sync)
Research tools like Zotero can harvest metadata and files from detail pages
Github repository integration (coming late 2025)

Public records API
- Retrieve documents individually or in bulk, with powerful search queries
- Return metadata objects (any supported export format) or formatted** citations/bibliography** (any supported citation format)
Public collections API
- search for collections and retrieve metadata about them
- retrieve the records in a collection
- retrieve public members of a collection’s team
OAI-PMH feeds
- Dedicated feeds for each institutional collection and sub-collection
- Custom feeds can be created for any query
More APIs for Authorized Users
- Self-managed OAuth tokens for API access based on a user account’s permissions
- Create, update and manage works, collections, collection membership
- Retrieve restricted or draft records (based on user’s permissions)
Import API for member institutions
- Streamlined bulk import of metadata and files for multiple works in one API request

Multiple files per work: up to 100 files attached to one record
Up to 500 GB combined storage space per work, allowing storage of small research datasets
- More efficient transfer for very large files coming in 2026
Attach any file type for download.
In place previewers for select file formats
- Robust pdf viewer with navigation controls, full-screen view
- Text documents (markdown with mathematical formulas are rendered
- Image file viewer (gif, jpg, png)
- Audio and video file players (mp3, wav, aac, flac, mp4, webm)
- Zip archive viewer (lists zip archive contents)
- Static code viewers for jupyter notebooks, XML/html source code, JSON
- CSV data previewed in table view
- GPX spatial data (coming in 2026)
Download a work’s files as a single zip archive

Compliant with MakeDataCount (Make Data Count) and COUNTER (COUNTER) standards
Usage stats for individual works (all versions and each version separately) on detail pages
- Total detail page views, total downloads, and total download volume
Dashboards for institutions, collections, sub-collections (summer 2025)
- Track works added to collection, aggregate usage stats for collection
- Filter stats based on time period, resource type, creator affiliation, etc.
- View trends over time
- With clear, engaging data visualizations
Dashboards for individual contributors (summer 2025)
- All the same kind of data, for an individual user’s works
- Viewable by institutional admins
Citations (2025)
- We plan to add available citation data from DataCite and OpenAlex, but this will be partial and incomplete and must be used with caution.
- Creators can add a record of incoming citations to their own works.

Works and collections are discoverable through KCWorks central search as well as KC’s unified platform search
Collections can be linked to KC groups for connected discussion forums, group sites, etc.
KCWorks on KCProfiles: customizable display of a user’s work and statistics on their KC profile (summer 2025)
A KCWorks WordPress plugin to display sets of works on any KC site (late 2025)
Promotion of recent and highlighted works on KC sites and social media