Despite the importance of bibliography in scientific/technical documents, a global solution to the bibliography management problem is still missing. Current solutions are limited in the sense that they are word-processor oriented, whereas users often must write documents with different tools; this obligates authors to use different bibliography managers, and even different collections (with the subsequent problems such as consistency enforcement, updating, etc.) depending on the word processor used at any moment. Bibshare is a new framework for bibliography management that allows writers to use the same bibliography collection(s) regardless of the word processing system they use at any moment. Moreover, both personal and external collections can be used to retrieve the bibliographic information to be inserted into the documents. Bibshare is open, so that new collections and word processors can be added in a straightforward way. Also, it is free. In this Website, you will find all the information about the system, as well as the different components for download. Some of the links are not active yet. They are working hard to have them ready very soon. Please stay tuned. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
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