Bibliographic Utilities

» A Format for Bibliographic Records
   Request For Comments: 1807. This RFC defines a format for bibliographic records describing technical reports.

   
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1807

» Automatic Bibliography Generator
   Generates refences from ISBN number.

   
   http://www.bibomatic.com/

» BibSonomy
   A social bookmark and publication sharing system that supports BibTeX.

   
   http://www.bibsonomy.org/

» Biblio
   Research program to organize notes, draft outlines, and create bibliographies.

   
   http://www.scholarsoft.com/biblio2.htm

» Bibliographic Software for Researchers
   Biblioscape is an information manager for researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians. People use it to organize literature references, generate citations and bibliographies automatically, search bibliographic database online, and post biblio

   
   http://www.biblioscape.com/

» Bibliographix
   Combines reference management, information retrieval and idea manager in a single application. [Microsoft Windows NT4/2000/XP]

   
   http://home.mybibliographix.com/

» Bibliophile Cataloguer Assisted Cataloging
   Online cataloging service for antiquarian book dealers and librarians. Provides access to 12 million bibliographical records in MARC, Homebase, and customisable formats.

   
   http://www.bibliophile-cataloguer.com/

» Biblioserver
   Bibliographical database hosting which supports browsing and searching of bibliographies.

   
   http://www.biblioserver.com/

» Bookends Plus
   A full featured bibliography/reference and information management system for students and professionals. Includes a downloadable evaluation version.

   
   http://www.sonnysoftware.com/

» Bowker's Spanish Books in Print
   Provides listings of in-print, forthcoming, audio, video, and out-of-print Spanish-language titles, and detailed publisher information.

   
   http://www.spanishbooksinprint.com

» Carmun
   Free bibliography and citation tools, organised by students, to find, manage and store academic research.

   
   http://www.carmun.com/

» Citation
   A commercial bibliographic database application for academic writers. Citation runs under Windows.

   
   http://www.citationonline.net/

» Citation Builder by SourceAid
   Create and manage MLA, APA, CMS, and CSE citations.

   
   http://www.sourceaid.com/

» Citation Machine
   Information on this interactive Web tool designed to assist teachers and students in producing reference citations for crediting information from other people.

   
   http://www.citationmachine.net/

» CiteULike
   A free online service to organise references to academic papers of interest and share them with others.

   
   http://www.citeulike.org/

» Digital Information Services Center
   Offers Windows and web versions of Reference Manager, ProCite, EndNote, BookWhere 2000, and Reference Web Poster. Bibliographic software for researchers, scholarly writers, students, and librarians.

   
   http://www.researchsoftware.net/

» Electronic Research
   Covers bibliography and citation management tools. Has reviews and feature comparisons for many commercial Windows and Macintosh packages.

   
   http://www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/eresearch/

» EndNote
   Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies. Windows and Mac OS X versions.

   
   http://www.endnote.com/

» GetARef
   Reference manager for Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT and XP.

   
   http://www.getaref.com/

» Groff
   From the GNU Project is a version of the classic text processor, troff, which includes the refer bibliographic tool.

   
   http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/groff.html

» HotReference.com
   Free web-based personal bibliographic manager integrated with a public reference database and a forum intended to criticize scientific works. It organizes and formats references automatically according to journals / conferences. It imports "Web Of

   
   http://www.hotreference.com

» ISI Researchsoft
   Niles Software is the software developer of EndNote, a commercial reference database and bibliographic software program.

   
   http://www.isiresearchsoft.com/

» InterBib Bibliography-Related Services
   It provides three facilities: conversion of bibliographies among different formats, the processing of documents to include bibliographies, and the collaborative accumulation of bibliographies that can be searched. Currently, conversion is provided from B

   
   http://dbpubs.stanford.edu/~testbed/interbib/

» MLA Auto-Generator
   Free software that formats works and cited entries.

   
   http://mlagen.sourceforge.net/

» NoodleTools
   NoodleBib allows students to create and edit their own MLA-style bibliographies.

   
   http://www.noodletools.com/

» Nota Bene
   Integrated software for writers, academics, researchers, and scholars. Combines multilingual word processing, text searching and retrieval, bibliographic management, and database management as a single program. [Windows]

   
   http://www.notabene.com/

» OCLC Cataloging Services
   Information about OCLC's copy-cataloguing utility, WorldCat (the OCLC Online Union Catalog).

   
   http://www.oclc.org/connexion/

» ProCite
   Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies on the Windows and Macintosh desktop.

   
   http://www.procite.com/

» RLIN - Research Libraries Information Network
   An information management and retrieval system used by research libraries, archival repositories, museums, academic, public, law, technical, and corporate libraries for cataloging, interlibrary loan, and archives and manuscripts control, and to build an

   
   http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=643

» RefDB
   Reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX/BibTeX documents. Features, documentation, screenshots, download and Sourceforge project page.

   
   http://refdb.sourceforge.net/

» RefWorks
   Online bibliographic management program that allows users to create a personal database of references and generate bibliographies in a variety of formats including APA, MLA, Turabian, and Chicago.

   
   http://www.refworks.com

» Refas - The Reference Assistant
   A reference management tool that allows the user to search, edit, add and store, and export references. Available for all platforms with a Java Virtual Machine. A trial version is available.

   
   http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/software/refas/

» Reference Manager
   Software tool for publishing and managing bibliographies on the Windows and Macintosh desktop.

   
   http://www.refman.com/

» Research Software Design
   Maker of the PAPYRUS bibliography system and knowledge manager. Free. DOS/Windows and Mac OS 9 versions.

   
   http://www.researchsoftwaredesign.com/

» SIXPACK - bibliography and reference manager
   A free BibTeX and reference manager designed to edit, convert and manage reference files, search and sort bibliographies, and import and export many different bibliography types.

   
   http://www.santafe.edu/~dirk/sixpack/

» Scholar's Aid
   Bibliographic program that features a notes organizing module.

   
   http://scholarsaid.com/

» Synapsen
   A hypertextual card index or reference management software written in Java, with special support of BibTeX. Site contains screen shots, manual, FAQ and downloads.

   
   http://www.verzetteln.de/synapsen/

» Technical standards for electronic bibliographic data/metadata
   Includes standards relating to URNs, SICI, DOI, Z39.50, TEI, RDF, and Dublin Core.

   
   http://staff.library.mun.ca/staff/toolbox/standards.htm

» USMARC Concise Format for Bibliographic Data
   USMARC Concise Bibliographic format to which all related sections of the format are linked.

   
   http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/

» Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names
   Request for Comments: 2288. This document discusses how three major bibliographic identifiers (the ISBN, ISSN and SICI) can be supported within the URN framework and the currently proposed syntax for URNs.

   
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2288

» Web Reference Database
   A platform-independent, multi-user interface for managing scientific literature and references. Based on php and mysql, it enables researchers to collaboratively manage a bibliographic database.

   
   http://refbase.sourceforge.net/

» Zotero
   Open-source Firefox extension to aid the collection, management, and use of research sources. Details of features, project news, discussion forums, and free download.

   
   http://www.zotero.org/

» zNote
   Web-based bibliography-management tool built with Zope and XML.

   
   http://www.zope.org/Members/JMaxwell/zNote/