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CloudSearch is a flexible plugin that allows you to leverage the search index power of Amazon CloudSearch in your WordPress site. 
To use this plugin you’ll need an Amazon Web Services account. Attention: Amazon CloudSearch is a paid service and will require a credit card.
Before you can start using CloudSearch, the plugin needs to be activated and configured. Activate the plugin, then go to the menu “CloudSearch -> Settings” (you can find this menu in the sidebar of your WordPress admin panel). 
Fill the form data:
<ul>
<li>Enter Amazon access key ID, Amazon secret access key and Amazon region for your account (look for “Security Credentials” in your Amazon console to retrieve these data)</li>
<li>Enter your CloudSearch index search endpoint and the domain name (I suggest to create the CloudSearch index before you start the plugin configuration)</li>
<li>Schema settings</li>
<li>Other settings</li>
</ul>
IMPORTANT NOTES WITH RELEASE 2.0.0: 
* At least WordPress 4.4 version mandatory (for WP_Term support) 
* Changed APIs output from an array of IDs to an array of object composed by the entity ID and the entity type
Minimum requirements:
<ul>
<li>WordPress Version 4.4</li>
<li>PHP Version 5.3</li>
<li>Amazon Web Services account with CloudSearch enabled</li>
</ul>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to <code>CloudSearch -> Settings</code></li>
<li>Enter your <code>Amazon access key ID</code>, <code>Secret access key</code> and the <code>Amazon region</code> where you have created the CloudSearch index</li>
<li>Enter a <code>Search endpoint</code> and the <code>Domain name</code>. Get these info in your CloudSearch dashboard in AWS Console</li>
<li>Choose post types, custom fields and custom taxonomies that you want to export to the CloudSearch index</li>
<li>Set up other settings or leave defaults</li>
<li>Save settings.</li>
<li>Go to <code>CloudSearch -> Manage</code></li>
<li>Click the action <code>Create index</code>, <code>Run indexing</code> and <code>Sync all documents</code>. Between every action wait until the <code>Status</code> field is <code>Active</code>, then go on with the next task</li>
<li>After these operation your index is ready, now you can search documents in your CloudSearch index</li>
</ol>
Links: <a href="http://www.andrealandonio.it" rel="nofollow ugc">Author’s Site</a>

CloudSearch

This plugin works great and saved me a huge amount of time. The developer is also responsive and was quick to make improvements when I discovered an issue with the implementation.

Huge time saver and responsive developer

CloudSearch is a flexible plugin that allows you to leverage the search index power of Amazon CloudSearch in your WordPress site.

Gianluigi Filippelli

The plugin add a shortcode in order to link a paper using its doi code. You can also use an other shortcode to resolve doi code and publish a full citation apa formatted. It is also a shortcode for manual citations.
<h3>Link doi</h3>
Using the standard for doi link, the plugin introduce a shortcode in order to create a link to a paper provided by doi. 
How to use the shortcode:
[ctdoi code=”…”]Title of the paper[/doi]
<h3>Doi resolver</h3>
The plugin send the doi code to <a href="https://search.crossref.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Crossref Metadata Search</a>, get the information and publish a full citation in apa standard with the shortcode [ctdoiresolve …]. 
How to use the shortcode:
[ctdoiresolve code=”…”]
There are also three optional parameters:
[ctdoiresolve code=”…” arxiv=”…”]
if the paper has an arXiv version
[ctdoiresolve code=”…” pdfurl=”…”]
if the paper has a free pdf version
[ctdoiresolve code=”…” archiveurl=”…”]
if the paper has a free version on <a href="https://archive.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">archive.org</a>
<h3>Manual citations</h3>
There’s also a shortcode for manual citations, [paperdata …]. You can use it with the following syntax:
[paperdata auth=”author/s name/s” year=”…” title=”…” journal=”…” vol=”…” issue=”…” pages=”…” code=”…”]
You can also use the arxiv, pdfurl, archiveurl parameters.
<h3>Styling</h3>
You can style citations adding in your css theme the class “paperdata”.
<h3>External service</h3>
Digital Object Identifier, or DOI, is a persistent identifier used to uniquely identify objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). DOIs are mainly used to identify academic, professional, and government information, such as journal articles, research reports and data sets, official publications.
Citations tools uses the <a href="http://search.crossref.org/help/api" rel="nofollow ugc">CrossRef Metadata API</a> to retrieve complete publication information using the doi code as a search query. CrossRef is a part of the <a href="https://dx.doi.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">doi system</a>.

Citations tools

Some tools for scientific and editorial bloggers.

CloudSearch vs Citations tools