diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d2f77b3d..cf4a3584 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,9 +1,16 @@
 # onFHIR FHIR Repository
+
+[![Maven Central](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/io.onfhir/onfhir-core/badge.svg)](https://search.maven.org/search?q=io.onfhir)
+[![License: GPL v3](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-GPLv3-blue.svg)](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0)
+
 [onFHIR](http://onfhir.io) is a FHIR compliant secure health data repository that you can use as a central data service for your FHIR compliant healthcare applications. 
 You can use it as a standalone server, or you can extend it with your further custom FHIR Operations to build your own application layer in addition to having standard FHIR repository capabilities. 
-onFhir.io is using FHIR Infrastructure Resource definitions (CapabilityStatement, StructureDefinition, SearchParameter, etc) to tailor 
+onFHIR.io is using FHIR Infrastructure Resource definitions (CapabilityStatement, StructureDefinition, SearchParameter, etc.) to tailor 
 the FHIR server to your specific FHIR capabilities you required; resource profiles, search parameters, FHIR interactions you wanted to support.     
-It is implemented with Scala, based on Akka and MongoDB. 
+
+It is implemented with Scala, based on Akka and MongoDB.
+
+Stable versions are released in [Maven Central](https://search.maven.org/search?q=io.onfhir) and snapshot versions in [Sonatype Snapshot Repository](https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/io/onfhir/).
 
 ## Basic Configuration
 You can copy and update **onfhir-core/src/main/resources/application.conf** file, which is the entrypoint configuration to configure onFHIR repository based on your needs.
@@ -13,7 +20,7 @@ For logger configurations, check **onfhir-core/src/main/resources/logback.xml**
 For configuration of the FHIR API to be provided, you need to provide the followings;
 * A file providing your **Conformance statement** (FHIR Capability Statement - See http://hl7.org/fhir/capabilitystatement.html) that describes the capabilities of the FHIR server you want to provide
 * A folder including all your **Profile definitions** (FHIR StructureDefinition - See http://hl7.org/fhir/structuredefinition.html) including resource, data type and extension definitions that will be used in the FHIR server you want to provide
-* A folder including all your **Compartment definitions** (FHIR CompartmentDefinition - See http://hl7.org/fhir/2016Sep/compartmentdefinition.html) for all compartments that you want to support for search
+* A folder including all your **Compartment definitions** (FHIR CompartmentDefinition - See http://hl7.org/fhir/compartmentdefinition.html) for all compartments that you want to support for search
 * A folder including all your **Search parameter definitions** (FHIR SearchParameter - See http://hl7.org/fhir/searchparameter.html) for all extra search parameters (apart from what is available from the base FHIR standard) that you define and support for your resources
 * A folder including all your **Value sets** (FHIR ValueSet - See http://hl7.org/fhir/valueset.html) that you define and refer in your resource profiles
 * A folder including all your **Operation definitions** (FHIR OperationDefinition - http://hl7.org/fhir/operationdefinition.html) that you define and refer from capability statement in operations part (For your OperationDefinitions write the full class path of your implementation of operation in OperationDefinition.name)
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e919bdd7..9a3d25fe 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,60 @@
     <artifactId>fhir-repository</artifactId>
     <packaging>pom</packaging>
     <version>3.0</version>
+
+    <name>OnFHIR Secure FHIR Repository</name>
+    <description>onFHIR is an HL7 FHIR compliant secure, high-performance and scalable health data repository that can be used as the central data service for HL7 FHIR compliant healthcare applications.</description>
+    <url>https://onfhir.io</url>
+
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>GNU General Public License v3.0</name>
+            <url>https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html</url>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+
+    <developers>
+        <developer>
+            <id>tnamli</id>
+            <name>Tuncay Namlı</name>
+            <email>tuncay@srdc.com.tr</email>
+            <organization>SRDC Corp.</organization>
+            <organizationUrl>https://www.srdc.com.tr</organizationUrl>
+        </developer>
+        <developer>
+            <id>msfyuksel</id>
+            <name>Mustafa Yüksel</name>
+            <email>mustafa@srdc.com.tr</email>
+            <organization>SRDC Corp.</organization>
+            <organizationUrl>https://www.srdc.com.tr</organizationUrl>
+        </developer>
+        <developer>
+            <id>sinaci</id>
+            <name>Ali Anıl Sınacı</name>
+            <email>anil@srdc.com.tr</email>
+            <organization>SRDC Corp.</organization>
+            <organizationUrl>https://www.srdc.com.tr</organizationUrl>
+        </developer>
+        <developer>
+            <id>postaci</id>
+            <name>Şenan Postacı</name>
+            <email>senan@srdc.com.tr</email>
+            <organization>SRDC Corp.</organization>
+            <organizationUrl>https://www.srdc.com.tr</organizationUrl>
+        </developer>
+        <developer>
+            <id>ozankose1992</id>
+            <name>Ozan Köse</name>
+            <email>ozankose1992@gmail.com</email>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
+
+    <scm>
+        <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/srdc/onfhir.git</connection>
+        <developerConnection>scm:git:ssh://github.com:srdc/onfhir.git</developerConnection>
+        <url>https://github.com/srdc/onfhir/tree/master</url>
+    </scm>
+
     <modules>
         <module>onfhir-common</module>
         <module>onfhir-core</module>
@@ -18,17 +72,16 @@
         <module>onfhir-path</module>
         <module>onfhir-validation</module>
     </modules>
-    <name>Onfhir Secure FHIR Repository</name>
 
     <repositories>
-        <repository>
+        <!--repository>
             <id>maven-releases</id>
             <url>http://nexus.srdc.com.tr/repository/maven-releases/</url>
         </repository>
         <repository>
             <id>maven-snapshots</id>
             <url>http://nexus.srdc.com.tr/repository/maven-snapshots/</url>
-        </repository>
+        </repository-->
         <repository>
             <id>oss-snapshots</id>
             <snapshots>
@@ -68,6 +121,12 @@
         <nimbus-jose.version>7.9</nimbus-jose.version>
         <nimbus-oidc.version>5.22</nimbus-oidc.version>
         <apache-commons-io.version>2.6</apache-commons-io.version>
+
+        <!-- release plugin versions -->
+        <version.plugin.source>3.2.1</version.plugin.source>
+        <version.plugin.javadoc>3.2.0</version.plugin.javadoc>
+        <version.plugin.gpg>1.6</version.plugin.gpg>
+        <version.plugin.nexus-staging>1.6.8</version.plugin.nexus-staging>
     </properties>
 
     <build>
@@ -154,10 +213,99 @@
                     <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>3.8.1</version>
                 </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>${version.plugin.source}</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>${version.plugin.javadoc}</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>${version.plugin.gpg}</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>${version.plugin.nexus-staging}</version>
+                </plugin>
             </plugins>
         </pluginManagement>
     </build>
 
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>release</id>
+            <activation>
+                <property>
+                    <name>gpg.passphrase</name>
+                </property>
+            </activation>
+            <build>
+                    <plugins>
+                        <plugin>
+                            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                            <executions>
+                                <execution>
+                                    <id>attach-source</id>
+                                    <phase>compile</phase>
+                                    <goals>
+                                        <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
+                                    </goals>
+                                </execution>
+                            </executions>
+                        </plugin>
+                        <plugin>
+                            <groupId>net.alchim31.maven</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>scala-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                            <executions>
+                                <execution>
+                                    <id>attach-javadocs</id>
+                                    <goals>
+                                        <goal>doc-jar</goal>
+                                    </goals>
+                                </execution>
+                            </executions>
+                        </plugin>
+                        <plugin>
+                            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                            <executions>
+                                <execution>
+                                    <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                                    <phase>verify</phase>
+                                    <goals>
+                                        <goal>sign</goal>
+                                    </goals>
+                                    <configuration>
+                                        <gpgArguments>
+                                            <arg>--pinentry-mode</arg>
+                                            <arg>loopback</arg>
+                                        </gpgArguments>
+                                    </configuration>
+                                </execution>
+                            </executions>
+                        </plugin>
+                        <plugin>
+                            <groupId>org.sonatype.plugins</groupId>
+                            <artifactId>nexus-staging-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                            <extensions>true</extensions>
+                            <configuration>
+                                <serverId>ossrh</serverId>
+                                <nexusUrl>https://oss.sonatype.org/</nexusUrl>
+                                <autoReleaseAfterClose>false</autoReleaseAfterClose>
+                            </configuration>
+                        </plugin>
+                    </plugins>
+            </build>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
+
     <dependencyManagement>
         <dependencies>
             <!-- Scala Language -->
@@ -370,6 +518,19 @@
     </dependencies>
 
     <distributionManagement>
+        <snapshotRepository>
+            <id>ossrh</id>
+            <name>Sonatype Nexus Snapshots</name>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
+        </snapshotRepository>
+        <repository>
+            <id>ossrh</id>
+            <name>Nexus Release Repository</name>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2</url>
+        </repository>
+    </distributionManagement>
+
+    <!--distributionManagement>
         <snapshotRepository>
             <id>maven-snapshots</id>
             <url>https://nexus.srdc.com.tr/repository/maven-snapshots/</url>
@@ -378,13 +539,6 @@
             <id>maven-releases</id>
             <url>https://nexus.srdc.com.tr/repository/maven-releases/</url>
         </repository>
-    </distributionManagement>
+    </distributionManagement-->
 
-    <!--repositories>
-        <repository>
-            <id>local-repo</id>
-            <name>Local JAR Repository</name>
-            <url>file://${project.basedir}/lib</url>
-        </repository>
-    </repositories-->
 </project>