Sr. Naranjo, I have a set of programs (the Annotated HyperBibliography [AHB]) that may solve your problem. They run on UNIX (and probably LINUX) servers and are well established, five or six years of running in two installations. The output is in HTML and takes three forms, an Alphabetic Index, a Title Index, and "catalog cards" for each of the references. The "catalog cards" can be references from any WWW page, so you can hyperlink to your bibliographic references from your citations in the text of web pages. The catalog cards can be annotated by your users, and the annotations appear in the catalog card. I use a Personal Bibliographic Manager [PBM] for a front end. Both ProCite and EndNotes have been used. Here is how it works: 1. Create your references in your PBM. All editing and entry takes place in the PBM, a program designed for that purpose. 2. Output your bibliography through a style file of the PBM. The Style file is designed to produce a text file that is the interface between the PBM and AHB. 3. Upload the interface file using a web form. That is all you need to do. Each time you revise the bibliography in the PBM you can produce a new interface file and upload it. You would have very little problem customizing the pages to use Catalan or Spanish. The programs are written in perl. There is no database necessary, as the programming emulates a database using the UNIX file structure. References: An Author Index: http://depts.washington.edu/bkn/public/pubs/HB/authindx.html A Title Index: http://depts.washington.edu/bkn/public/pubs/HB/titleindex.cgi?dir=dissertati... A Catalog Card: http://depts.washington.edu/bkn/public/pubs/HB/catpage.cgi?dir=dissertation&... Catalog card called from a web page: Click on any citation in http://depts.washington.edu/bkn/public/pubs/DocReview/C2a/basedoc.html#adapt... There are more features available, such as specialized bibliographies extracted from the PBM database, markings for recommended readings, and maybe some more that I don't recall at the moment. Julio Meneses Naranjo wrote:

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@uoc.edu

-- Charlie Hendricksen, PhD Research Collaboration Architect "Information technology structures human relationships." Dissertation link: http://depts.washington.edu/bkn/public/pubs/diss.html DocReview link: http://purl.oclc.org/DocReview/get