Managing electronic references

Graphical Programs

With graphical apps, you can manage not only your book inventory but also the material according to bibliographical data sets within certain limits. Especially applicable good for e-books is the Calibre [12] tool. Unfortunately, Calibre does not yet offer integration with standard metadata, which may be a reason to look for other alternatives.

JabRef

JabRef [13][14] was developed in Java; it uses BibTeX references and is available for Linux, Mac OS X, and MS Windows platforms. Using the well-developed user interface, you can not only edit BibTeX entries (see Figure 3) but also browse through various online scientific databases, such as CiteSeer [15], the digital archive of the IEEE standards organization and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) [16][17].

Figure 3: An entry for an article managed by JabRef.

JabRef interacts with various programs and formats, including importing and exporting SQL, DocBook/XML, worksheets for OpenOffice Calc, and CSV data. The project page [13] also features a plugin named jabref-plugin-oo that is a direct interface between JabRef and OpenOffice or LibreOffice. You can use it to manage the direct use of JabRef datasets.

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