Pybliographer 1.3.3 review

Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 0K Developer: Pybliographer Team

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Pybliographer is a tool for managing bibliographic databases. It can be used for searching, editing, reformatting, etc. In fact, it's a simple framework that provides easy to use python classes and functions, and therefore can be extended to many uses (generating HTML pages according to bibliographic searches, etc).

In addition to the scripting environment, a graphical Gnome interface is available. It provides powerful editing capabilities, a nice hierarchical search mechanism, direct insertion of references into LyX and Kile, direct queries on Medline, and more.

Pybliographer currently supports the following file formats: BibTeX, ISI, Medline, Ovid, Refer. Pybliographer is licenced under the GNU GPL, and available with its source code for free. It is the resulting work of many people.

Requirements:
Python, version >= 1.5.2
Glib, version >= 1.0.x
GNU Recode, version 3.5 or 3.6 with a patch (see the Recode help page for more information)
Gnome, version 2.x
Gnome-Python, version >= 2.0

What's New in This Release:
This version adds support for querying external databases.
So far, PubMed, Web of Science, and CrossRef are available.
Transparent conversion between database formats is possible.
Integration with OpenOffice.org and LyX was added, and many internal cleanups were done.
The graphical user interface, available as pybliographic-0.2, offers a new editing widget, support for undo/redo, and a plugin infrastructure for batch modifications.
The interface can now run on Windows.