Title: ids_knowledge_services
Author: mnsabagwa
Published: <strong>May 11, 2012</strong>
Last modified: September 12, 2012

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# ids_knowledge_services

 By [mnsabagwa](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mnsabagwa/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/ids-knowledge-services.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ids-knowledge-services/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ids-knowledge-services/#developers)

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## Description

Institute of development Studies (IDS) manages a project Knowledge Services that
seeks to provide a bridge between research, policy and practice in international
development by delivering and supporting a range of information-sharing services,
and strengthening the ability of others to do the same. With over forty years experience
in this field, IDS aims to help people understand and make sense of the complexities
and realities of poverty and injustice, emphasising the importance of using diverse
and credible information in decision-making processes. This is done through opening
up access to research information, stimulating demand for its use, and strengthening
the capacity of others also engaged in this knowledge brokering role
 . By providing
access to free resources like publications and organisations, IDS enables many to
understand and champion the role of information in tackling poverty and injustice
and help address the power imbalances and capacity constraints that limit people’s
ability to access and make use of information.

ids_knowledge_services plugin provides access to free publications and organisations.
this is through searching through two databases bridge (http://www.bridge.ids.ac.
uk/) and eldis (http://www.eldis.org/). the plugin also provides information on 
statistics of the publications by region, theme /subject, topic etc. the plugin 
show the most recent as well as old documents and organisations. Users are able 
to use shortcodes to retrieve especific documents from the two databases

### Credits

To the Institute of development studies for funding the development of the plugin
and for designing an API that gives free access to thousands of publications

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### License

This file is part of Insights.
 Insights is free software: you can redistribute 
it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version. Insights is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You
should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Insights.
If not, see [http://www.gnu.org/licenses/](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/).

## Screenshots

 * [[
 * Adding the API key to get access to the API

## Installation

 1. Upload `ids_knowledge_services.zip` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Under the administrator menu, expand the IDS KS API menu, Choose configure settings.
 4. Visit the http://api.ids.ac.uk/profiles/view/ link in the content area for free
    registration. you will be privided with a free IDS API key which you will enter
    in the form provided in the plugin.
 5. configure number of search results to be displayed per page

## FAQ

  How can i administer the plugin

read the installation procedure. after getting a free api key, you will have accesss
to the free publications through searches, shotcodes etc.

  How often do i have to enter the api key in the plugin

the API key is entered once by the adminstrator. it will be saved and used within
the subsequent usage of the plugin. other non administrators need not know the details
but will have access to the publications on their websites

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“ids_knowledge_services” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ mnsabagwa ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mnsabagwa/)
 *   [ lssanyu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lssanyu/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * A change since the previous version.
 * Another change.

#### 0.5

 * List versions from most recent at top to oldest at bottom.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **14 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.0.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.2.1**
 * Tag
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## Contributors

 *   [ mnsabagwa ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/mnsabagwa/)
 *   [ lssanyu ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/lssanyu/)

## Support

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