Bibliograph – collaborative online bibliography management

Bibliograph is a web-based application for collecting, editing and publishing bibliographic information. It is designed for researchers, librarians, teachers and students who need to maintain shared bibliographies and library collections.

The software provides a central environment where multiple people can contribute to bibliographic databases without installing a dedicated desktop application. It is suitable for research groups compiling references for collaborative projects, academic institutions maintaining specialist collections and educators sharing reading material with students.

Bibliograph combines reference management with tools for organising and publishing collections. Its architecture uses the qooxdoo JavaScript framework for the interface and Yii2 for the server backend, with extensions available for integrating additional bibliographic services.

This is free and open source software.

Key Features

• Organise bibliographic records into static folders and dynamic collections based on search queries.
• Search metadata using flexible expressions, including natural language queries.
• Provides rich bibliographic metadata fields with autocompletion when entering references.
• Fine-grained access controls with users, roles, groups and permissions.
• Control who can view, create, edit and delete bibliographic records.
• Manage multiple independent bibliographic databases.
• Import references from library catalogues using the Z39.50 protocol.
• Import bibliographic records from RIS, BibTeX, EndNote, MODS and other formats.
• Export bibliographic information using open data formats.
• Publish selected collections through RSS feeds.
• Create and restore database snapshots for backup and recovery.
• Integrate with LDAP servers for user authentication.
• Extend functionality through plugins, including experimental Zotero integration.

Website: github.com/cboulanger/bibliograph
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Developer: Christian Boulanger
License: MIT License

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