BibApp – reference management software

Last Updated on July 10, 2021

BibTeX is an open source reference management software for formatting lists of references. The BibTeX tool is typically used together with the LaTeX document preparation system.

BibApp allows librarians to:

• Better understand research happening in a departments
• Facilitate conversations about author rights with researchers
• Ease the population of your institutional or other repository
• Get a clearer picture of scholarly publishing trends on the campus

BibApp allows researchers to promote their research, find collaborators on campus, make your research more accessible, and reuse their publication history in other applications.

BibApp is a Ruby on Rails 2.3 web application.

Features include:

• Customizable faculty profiles.
• Batch-import citations.
• Assess publisher copyright policies for self-archiving.
• Automatic import packages for your IR.
• Third-party import and editing of citations.
• Automatic flagging of duplicate citations on import.
• Name disambiguation for authors.
• Authority control for author, publisher, and journal names.
• Book cover images via Google Books.
• Redirection to licensed articles in your local library.
• Faceted search.

Website: bibapp.org
Support: GitHub
Developer: Yusuke Kamiyamane and contributors
License: University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License

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