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Bibliographer

Bibliographer is a reference and literature management application. It catalogues literature and supports the following features:

  • Fast full text search of entire literature database
  • Automatic look-up of metadata for documents that contain a valid DOI link
  • Meta-data stored in a sqlite database, and changes occur seamlessly

Installation:

Requirements:

  • Mono => 4.0
  • gtk-sharp => 2.99
  • sqlite
  • automake1.9
  • autoconf

Installation instructions:

From a GIT checkout:

$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure
$ make

and, as root:

# make install

From a tar.gz release:

$ ./configure
$ make

and, as root:

# make install

Authors

Future work

  • Automatic file management:
    • Store all literature files in a directory tree. User customisable prefix, then in the following folders, based on type: $PREFIX$/Papers, $PREFIX$/Books, $PREFIX$/Thesis, $PREFIX$/Article etc...
    • Files to be renamed in the following format, based upon database entry: YEAR - FIRST AUTHOR - TITLE.ext
  • Bibtex + other types of bibliographic database files to be exported by the application.
  • Provide a tagging mechanism to group / classify certain topics together.
  • Literature indexing:
    • Support for Abiword and OpenOffice documents
  • Addition of user meta-data eg. notes, abstracts, reviews
  • Drag and drop support for references:
    • Be able to drag from list view and drop a reference into a document being edited
  • Word processor integration with Lyx, Abiword, OpenOffice, MS-Word (Win port)
  • Online literature database searching eg. Medline, ScienceDirect etc...
  • Win32 port

License

This project is licensed under the Gnu GPL version 2 license.

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