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refbase is a web-based institutional repository and reference management software written in PHP and using MySQL as a back-end database. It is available under the terms of the GPL license and its packages are featured in the official repositories of Gentoo Linux and Mandriva Linux.
| refbase | |
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 refbase index page | |
| Developer | Richard Karnesky
Michael Bartz Matthias Steffens |
| Initial release | October 13, 2002 |
| Stable release | 0.9.6
/ November 14, 2021 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | PHP |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | French, English, Chinese (Traditional), Chinese (Simplified), German, Japanese, Russian |
| Type | Reference management software |
| License | GPL |
| Website | refbase |
refbase can be used to collect and share digital copies of publications such as an academic institution's research output.[1] refbase has also been used as a publication archive, for example, the Washington State University did use refbase to provide access to its collection of the Pullman Herald newspaper.[2]
refbase has been cited as one of the first web-based open-source tools to facilitate collaborative reference management.[3]
Features
edit- Import/export of multiple bibliographic formats, including BibTeX, EndNote, RIS, ISI, MODS XML, PubMed, Medline, RefWorks, and Copac.
- Generating formatted bibliographies and citations in LaTeX, RTF, HTML, and PDF.
- Advanced search features and generation of RSS feeds from searches.
- Adding links using DOIs and URLs as well as links to files.
- Support for Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU) and OpenSearch web services.
- Support for COinS and unAPI metadata.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Velmurugan, Chandran; Radhakrishnan, Natarajan (December 2014). "Institutional Repositories Software for Digital Libraries in the Digital Environment". International Journal of Multidisciplinary Consortium (IJMC). 1 (3): 131. ISSN 2349-073X. Retrieved 19 December 2025.
- ^ Coombs, Karen A.; Hollister, Amanda J. (2010). Open Source Web Applications for Libraries. Medford, N.J.: Information Today, Inc. pp. 180–183. ISBN 978-1-57387-400-7.
- ^ Heller, Lambert (August 2007). "Bibliographie und Sacherschließung in der Hand vernetzter Informationsbenutzer". Bibliothek Forschung und Praxis (in German). 31 (2). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter: 165. doi:10.34657/13537. ISSN 0341-4183. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
External links
edit- Official refbase website
- refbase users Archived 2007-02-17 at the Wayback Machine (including databases which have 10,000 records for atom probe, cephalopods, conservation science, marine and polar science)
- SourceForge project page