[ILUG] Reference database

[Gerry Boland]

I've heard of Aigaion[1], a web based system for large shared
bibliographies. It will satisfy requirements 1 and 2 anyway, and goes well
with BibTex for LaTeX users. Never used it myself, so cannot comment on 3.
-Gerry

[1] http://www.aigaion.nl/

2009/1/8 Kevin Philp <kevin at cybercolloids.net>

> I have been asked by our scientists here to look into a method of
> downloading, storing and using scientific references.  Apparently those from
> Windows backgrounds refer to Endnote so we are looking for something similar
> to that.
>
> The requirements are:
>
> 1. Must work on our standard  Ubuntu/OpenOffice desktop
>
> 2. Prefer it was available over the network via MySQL. If MySQL is not an
> option than we prefer it was shared via another route.
>
> 3. Prefer that it utilises the ability to extract references from web pages
> directly.
>
> 4. The lab people have suggested Zotero or Bibus as options.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with either?
>
> Does anyone have any other suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Kevin.
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