JabRef
JabRef was founded 2003 and has since been used by many students and researchers. Our mission is to advance knowledge and improve scientific research. We value open access to information and believe modern science can built on an open institutional structure. This is why we develop JabRef as free open-source software and save your data in a simple text-based file format with no vendor lock-in. Fetch complete bibliographic information based on ISBN, DOI, PubMed-ID and arXiv-ID. Complete and improve bibliographic data by comparing with curated online catalogues such as Google Scholar, Springer or MathSciNet. Automatically rename and move associated files according to customizable rules. Customize and add new metadata fields or reference types. Organize articles based on keywords, tags, search terms or your manual assignments. Native BibTeX and BibLaTeX support, perfect for text-based typesetting systems such as LaTeX and Markdown.
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Bebop
Bebop provides a nice web interface to a list of publications stored in a BibTeX file. Bebop is based on a single BibTeX file as database. Listing by year, author, document type, keywords, research area. Search in document titles, generation of keyword cloud, displaying abstract, BibTeX and links to DOI, full text, slides, poster files, exporting to BibTeX. RSS feed of the publication list, unAPI support, zotero compatibility, adding new publications online (either by BibTeX code or by filling in specific fields), better user experience with AJAX. Permanent links to publications and categories, easily embedable into personal websites and CMS-based websites. Bebop uses j4bib to convert the BibTeX file into XML format. The web interface is built on top of the XML data to provide an easy navigation of publications. It is usable by anyone who keeps the list of their publications in BibTeX form. Installation takes 1 minute.
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BibSonomy
Using BibSonomy you can easily create collections of bookmark and publication posts. Just insert bookmarks and publications. You can do this even faster with our BibSonomy browser add-ons or bookmarklets. In addition, you can also use ISBN, ISSN, DOI, or barcodes to have the insert publication form filled up automatically for you. Use tags to organize the posts in your collection. If you choose them carefully, tags are a very powerful instrument. Learn more about tagging in BibSonomy. BibSonomy helps you create bibligraphies for scientific papers. If you use a specific tag for each bibliography and assign it to all your paper posts accordingly, you can use the tag to find all papers of the bibliography. Afterwards, you can export your publication list in the desired format. BibSonomy supports a lot of formats, e. g. Microsoft Word Reference Manager, EndNote, and BibTeX.
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Mendeley
Add papers directly from your browser with a few clicks or import any documents from your desktop. Access your library from anywhere. Windows, Mac, Linux and all browsers. Generate references, citations and bibliographies in a whole range of journal styles with just a few clicks. Build your personal Mendeley library to organize, search and read all your references. Also available: Mendeley Cite, the new citation add-in for Microsoft® Word, takes the time out of referencing. Being able to work seamlessly is vital to you. So, as well as searching your Mendeley library and inserting individual or multiple references and bibliographies in just a few clicks, with Mendeley Cite you can: Cite without having Mendeley Desktop open or even installed, minimizing potential performance loss.
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