Reference management Archives

liber – local-first reference manager for academic research

liber organises academic papers locally with BibTeX references, PDF attachments, Markdown notes, searchable tags and bibliography exports.

Bibliograph helps research groups manage shared bibliographies with record imports, flexible searches, access controls and publishing.

Papr is a terminal research workspace combining arXiv discovery, PDF management, reading, notes and LaTeX and Typst manuscript editing.

Reference management software is software for academics and authors to use to record and use bibliographic citations.

Paperlib manages academic papers and PDFs with automatic metadata retrieval, smart filters, full-text search, notes and reference export.

cb2Bib extracts bibliographic data from PDFs and copied text, manages BibTeX collections and supports full-text search and citation tools.

WIKINDX provides web-based bibliography management, research notes, quotations and collaborative academic writing with formatted citations.

BibLaTeX adds advanced bibliography and citation formatting to LaTeX documents, with Biber processing, Unicode support and flexible styles.

I, Librarian helps researchers manage scientific PDFs, search full text, organise references and collaborate in a self-hosted web library.

Docear combined mind mapping, PDF annotations and reference management on Linux; this open source academic research tool is discontinued.

Zotero organises research sources, PDFs and annotations, with citation styles, bibliographies, word processor tools and library syncing.

JabRef organises BibTeX and BibLaTeX libraries with metadata searches, PDF handling, duplicate detection and word processor integration.

KBibTeX is a KDE bibliography manager for editing BibTeX records, finding duplicates, importing references and previewing citations.