diff --git a/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml b/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
index 4c82fc668..6ac6dc207 100644
--- a/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
+++ b/solr/exampleSolr/conf/schema.xml
@@ -581,6 +581,9 @@
 <!-- field for storing locations of thumbnails -->
 <field name="THUMBNAIL_URL" type="string" indexed="false" stored="true"/>
 
+<!-- field for source institution's name -->
+<field name="SITE_URL" 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 361bde923..3e0e39696 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/VitroSearchTermNames.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/VitroSearchTermNames.java
@@ -70,4 +70,7 @@ public class VitroSearchTermNames {
     
     /** download url location for thumbnail */
 	public static final String THUMBNAIL_URL = "THUMBNAIL_URL";
+	
+	/** source institution url */
+	public static final String SITE_URL = "SITE_URL";
 }
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SourceInstitution.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SourceInstitution.java
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c0d7364d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/search/solr/SourceInstitution.java
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/* $This file is distributed under the terms of the license in /doc/license.txt$ */
+
+package edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.solr;
+
+import org.apache.solr.common.SolrInputDocument;
+
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.beans.Individual;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.search.VitroSearchTermNames;
+
+public class SourceInstitution implements DocumentModifier {
+	
+	private String siteURL;
+	static VitroSearchTermNames term = new VitroSearchTermNames();
+	private String fieldForSiteURL = term.SITE_URL;
+	
+	public SourceInstitution(String siteURL){
+		this.siteURL = siteURL;
+	}
+	
+	@Override
+	public void modifyDocument(Individual individual, SolrInputDocument doc,
+			StringBuffer addUri) throws SkipIndividualException {
+		
+		doc.addField(fieldForSiteURL, siteURL);
+	}
+
+	@Override
+	public void shutdown() {
+
+	}
+
+}