Credits

Folio is built on the shoulders of great open-source projects and open data providers.

Inspiration

Wispar The Flutter mobile app that inspired Folio — a privacy-first academic journal reader.

Data & APIs

Crossref Journal and article metadata via the Crossref REST API.
OpenAlex Open catalog of scholarly works, used for journal metadata and work search.
Unpaywall Open database of legal free-to-read versions of research articles.
EZproxy DB Community-maintained list of library EZproxy institutions for proxy autocomplete.
Zotero Reference manager integration for exporting articles to your library.

Open-source dependencies

Actix-web HTTP framework for Rust.
PostgreSQL Relational database.
SQLx Async Rust SQL toolkit with compile-time query verification.
Tera Jinja2-inspired template engine for Rust.
HTMX HTML-first library for dynamic UI without a JavaScript framework.
Tailwind CSS Minimal CSS framework with automatic dark mode.
Rust Systems programming language powering the entire backend.

About

Folio is an academic project by cerebralmisfire.net, from the house of academic.coffee.

License

Folio is free software licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. Source code is available on GitHub.