ScienceHub

ScienceHub is a platform aiming to provide a unified space for sharing, exploring, managing and discussing scientific research.

Status

The codebase is in the process of rewriting, transitioning from Supabase to a fully-fledged .NET backend and plain PostgreSQL database. This repository contains the backend code (C#, .NET, EF).

Features

There are three main categories of features: Research, Management and Community.

Research

Works are the basic blocks of scientific research. They can be Papers, Experiments, Datasets, Data Analyses, AI Models or Code Blocks. These can be organized into Projects, for unified management and visibility.

Management

Projects and works are updated through a custom version control system built from scratch to accommodate the needs of the website. Submissions, akin to git commits, are blocks holding changes between project or work versions. There are also Issues and (Community) Reviews.

Community

This includes real-time Discussions and Chats, as well as Team management.

These features show up throughout the main page directories:

• Workspace: A comprehensive space through which the user can manage their work.
• Browse: A unified space for browsing ScienceHub data.
• Other: Profile pages, Project pages, Resources

For an in-depth look at these features and our motivations for introducing them, see the Resources pages within the website.

How to use

ScienceHub is not yet deployed. To run it locally, follow these steps:

1. Ensure you have installed: Docker, Minikube/Docker Compose and a newer version of Node.
2. Fetch the backend. From the root, run cd scripts and then the StartMinikube script, depending on your operating system. This will build the images for the backend microservices and register corresponding deployments and services in Minikube.
3. Expose the API Gateway with kubectl port-forward sciencehub-backend-api-gateway 8082:8082. If you need to work with a service's database, also expose postgresql-core 5432:5432 or postgresql-community 5433:5433.
4. Fetch the frontend and run from the root npm install, npm run dev. Now you can use the app by accessing it in the browser at http://localhost:3000.

Contributing

At ScienceHub, we are guided by an open-source, community-driven philosophy. As such, any contributions are warmly welcomed. See CONTRIBUTING.md.