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.