Bibliograph: Open Source Online Citation & Library Management

Bibliograph is a powerful open source web application for the collaborative collection, editing and publishing of bibliographic data.

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Bibliograph

• is an application that lets you collect, edit, and publish bibliographic data collaboratively on the web;
• has a modern and intuitive user interface that makes the daily life of working with bibliographies and library collections easy and fun;
• allows researchers, librarians, teachers and students work together online without having to install software locally;
• is fully open source and free to download, install, use and adapt to your particular need.

Bibliograph can be used by

• scholars and librarians who want to publish a library collection or a thematic bibliography online;
• groups of researchers who work together in a research project and want to collect and share bibliographic references;
• professors and teachers who want to share bibliographic information with their students.

Features

• Organize bibliographic records in static folders or dynamic collections based on queries;
• Rich metadata, Autocompletion and duplicate detection;
• Allows natural language queries like "title contains hamlet and author beginswith shake";
• Fine-grained access control system with users, roles, groups and permissions allows flexible user management and contol of who is allowed to view, enter, edit and delete data;
• Unlimited amount of separate databases;
• Imports data from library catalogues (through Z39.50 interface), from various file-based data formats (RIS, BibTeX, Endnote, MODS, and more), and from RSS feeds.
• Export into various open formats and publish folders as RSS feeds;
• Formats bibliographic records with various citation styles (APA, Chicago, ...) using CSL templates and the citeproc style processor (https://citationstyles.org);
• Ability to create and restore snapshot backups of individual databases;
• LDAP integration to connect to existing LDAP servers;
• Optionally provides a user forum;
• Fully open source, can be easily adapted and extended by plugins.