BibCiter is an online manager for bibliographic references developed by Ismael Peña-López as the solutions available at the time (Summer 2005) did not exactly fit what I needed.
What does BibCiter do (now, more than I actually needed)
- Work fully online, with the only help of a browser. BibCiter is built with PHP script language and MySQL database (don't know what versions: see What does NOT BibCiter do for details).
- Make possible the sharing of the most part of your data with others, mainly the works and contacts you have in your database. Personal notes on works, or contact data for authors are kept private for admin users.
- Build automagically the "correct" bibliographical citation according to the APA standards (some bad working can happen, nobody's perfect). The output can be in any language the admin decides.
- Assign works (bibliographic citations) to "bibliographies", so I don't have to copy and paste the bibliography I used for that article or that conference. Bibliographies are not public and remain the domain of the admin users. Full bibliographies can be listed with the "correct" APA citation to just copy and paste it to your text editor or publish it online if desired. Indeed, you can keep track of all the bibliographies you have "made" and go back to them to build/base a new one.
- Assign categories (more than one, but keeping a main category) to both works and authors.
- List all the projects of an author.
- List all the projects included into another project (i.e. articles cited belonging to this or that journal)
- Search through your data by almost all the (relevant) fields (including when you created it, if you have read/downloaded/... it and what bibliography/ies or category/ies it belongs to.
- Import/export of BibTeX files.
- Output RSS feed for works (full citation and link to further details).
- Be sort of compatible with WordPress themes, so you can surf for better look and feel (no, I'm not a good designer...).
What does NOT BibCiter do
- Include citations in word processor documents.
- Have state of the art code (no, I'm not a good programmer).
Somewhere in time, once 90% of the bugs and horribly bad code is translated to just bad code, and once some poor but basic documentation can be written down, I'll try and open it and publish it under a GPL license and set up the proper free software project. If you are really really interested in helping me out, just let me know. I you think the program might be useful to you, I guess I could provide a pre-alfa version to blow up your hard drive or server.
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