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Best Free Bibliographic Database Software (Stub only) [1]

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Introduction

What freeware alternatives are there to the expensive paid bibliographic software (Reference Manager, Endnote etc) now virtually monopolized by Thompsons?

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Rated Products

The following is a list of selected bibliographic or reference database management freeware products to be reviewed. They are platform independent except where specified.

Standalone Programs

  • Aigaion [3] allows you to categorize publications in your own, user-created topic tree (Open Source GPL)

  • Bibus [4] is designed for OpenOffice (Open Source GPL)

  • JabRef [5] provides a user interface for editing reference lists filed in BibTex format only (Open Source GPL)

  • Jumper 2.0 [6] is an Enterprise Bookmarking engine designed for organizations - it provides "a web-infrastructure platform for tagging and linking data objects" (Open Source GPL)

  • Mendeley [7] "desktop and web solution designed for managing and sharing research papers, discovering research data and collaborating online" - supports OpenOffice (freeware, proprietary beta)

  • Refbase [8] is a web-based, multi-user interface for managing scientific literature & citations in various formats (Open Source GPL)

  • RefDB [9] is a reference database tool (for SGML, XML, and LaTeX/BibTeX documents) which allows network sharing (Open Source GPL)

Web Apps

  • Connotea [10] from Nature Publishing Group is intended for scientists and allows tagging (Open Source GPL)

  • I, Librarian [11] is a PHP program for creating annotated (SQLite) collections of PDFs (Open Source GPL; Windows, Linux only)

  • JabRef (see above) can also be used as a web app.

  • Mendeley (see above) appears to be primarily envisaged as a web app.

  • WIKINDX [12] is a single/multi-user bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system (Open Source GPL).

  • RefDB (see above) also allows read-only access via a web browser.

  • Zotero [13] is a Firefox extension designed to gather research info from the internet. Also offers some reference management functions (Open Source GPL).

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[3] http://www.aigaion.nl/
[4] http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
[5] http://jabref.sourceforge.net/
[6] http://www.jumpernetworks.com/
[7] http://www.mendeley.com/
[8] http://www.refbase.net/index.php/Web_Reference_Database
[9] http://refdb.sourceforge.net/
[10] http://www.connotea.org/
[11] http://www.bioinformatics.org/librarian/
[12] http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/index.htm
[13] http://www.zotero.org/
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