[Air-l] online bibliography application to share scientific literature and citations thru web browser?

[Julio Meneses Naranjo]

Hi there,

Just a quick question looking for some information about some 
online references database software. We are all 'Internet 
Researchers' (just remembering the recent discussion about that) 
and probably some of you are working on my scenario).

I'm trying to organize a shared bibliography for my research team 
and my first thought was to develop something on PHP / MySQL. I 
need something to read/edit/add bibliography thru the web (some 
kind of users management, blah, blah, blah), but I'm pretty sure 
there should be something available (maybe GNU, maybe not). I have 
been browsing some PHP scripts repositories and no success at all, 
so I went to sourceforce.net and found some interesting things. 
However, most of them are not what I'm looking.

The one I found that maybe could be used with some modifications 
was netref (have a look here if you are interested: 
http://refbase.sourceforge.net/)

Well, now the question is: do you know/use any server application 
(Unix, PHP & MySQL) to manage scientific literature and citations? 
Clients like Reference Manager and so on are clients and don't let 
me to share the database. Well, Reference Manager has something to 
do that at its latest version but it's not what I'm looking for 
(it's windows, not UNIX, and then I should let my computer always 
on and it shouldn't be available outside our own network (I need to 
give support to people at the research group that are not based at 
our University).

Any help / hints / suggestions are really welcome. I really don't 
want to miss something interesting before choosing one. Thank you 
very much in advance :-)


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Julio Meneses Naranjo
Investigador del IN3
Doctorando del Programa de Sociedad de la Información del IN3

Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
Estudis de Psicologia i Ciències de l'Educació
Avinguda Tibidabo 39-43
08035 Barcelona (Spain)

jmenesesn at uoc.edu