diff --git a/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml b/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
index 6ac6dc207..f14cb1e5b 100644
--- a/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
+++ b/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
@@ -584,6 +584,9 @@
 <!-- field for source institution's name -->
 <field name="SITE_URL" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
 
+<!--  field for preferred title -->
+<field name="PREFERRED_TITLE" type="string" indexed="true" stored="true"/>
+
 <!-- Copy nameLowercase to sortable field. -->
 <copyField source="nameLowercase" dest="nameLowercaseSingleValued" />
    
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/VitroSearchTermNames.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/VitroSearchTermNames.java
index 3e0e39696..41c09cfa1 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/VitroSearchTermNames.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/VitroSearchTermNames.java
@@ -73,4 +73,6 @@ public class VitroSearchTermNames {
 	
 	/** source institution url */
 	public static final String SITE_URL = "SITE_URL";
+	/** preferred title */
+	public static final String PREFERRED_TITLE = "PREFERRED_TITLE";
 }
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/IndividualToSolrDocument.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/IndividualToSolrDocument.java
index 250f452be..8182690bf 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/IndividualToSolrDocument.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/IndividualToSolrDocument.java
@@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ public class IndividualToSolrDocument {
                 DataPropertyStatement dataPropertyStmt =  dataPropertyStmtIter.next();
                 if(dataPropertyStmt.getDatapropURI().equals(label)){ // we don't want label to be added to alltext
                     continue;
+                } else if(dataPropertyStmt.getDatapropURI().equals("http://vivoweb.org/ontology/core#preferredTitle")){
+                	//add the preferredTitle field
+                	String preferredTitle = null;
+                	doc.addField(term.PREFERRED_TITLE, ((preferredTitle=dataPropertyStmt.getData()) == null)?"":preferredTitle);
+                	log.debug("Preferred Title: " + dataPropertyStmt.getData());
                 }
                 allTextValue.append(" ");
                 allTextValue.append(((t=dataPropertyStmt.getData()) == null)?"":t);