Features

Table of contents

  1. 1.Workflow
  2. 2.Import literature
  3. 3.Write excerpts, articles or memos
  4. 4.Create list of references
  5. 5.Manage digital documents
  6. 6.Getting books from your library

1. Workflow

2. Import literature

Just copy the bibliographic record from the library's website and paste it into an input field. Bibwiki translates the gibberish to a nicely formatted BibTeX record. This works for most OPACs which run on Ex Libris' Aleph, a widely spread system. Chances are good that your library of choice uses it too. It also works for Amazon, for bibliographic databases by ProQuest/CSA (such as Oceanic Abstracts, Bibliography of the History of Art etc) and many others. Learn more...

3. Write excerpts, articles or memos

Use the features of Mediawiki to write excerptes, articles or memos for your bibliographic records.

  • With the skin BibwikiMonobook the titles of the articles in your wiki are linked to the corresponding bibliographic record (Example).
  • The wiki markup   <bib>Frankel:2002</bib>   creates a link to the bibliographic record.
  • Similarly, the wiki markup   <paper>Frankel_2002.pdf</paper>   creates a link to a downloaded article. Learn more about Bibwiki's markups

4. Create list of references

You can create lists of references in your wiki articles with the wiki markups  <bibref>  and <bibreferences>.   Use   <bibref>Frankel:2002</bibref>   to refer to the bibliographic record   Frankel:2002   of the default bibliography and   <bibreferences/> to create a list of all references of the article. Learn more...

But what to do with bibliographic data in BibTeX's notation when you use a word processor like Microsoft Word? Bibwiki allows you to export bibliographic entries via BibTeX's style files. It translates BibTeX's output to HTML (example). Simply copy and paste this output to your preferred text processor.

It's also very easy to generate a list of references from a word document. More...

5. Manage digital documents

Maybe you experienced something similar: You saved an interesting document from the internet on your harddisk. Months later you want to cite from this document but then you realize that you forgot to make a note of the document's URL.

You should have used Bibwiki because it offers a simple way of managing digital documents. For every document you grasped from the internet, Bibwiki generates an bibliographic entry, where it stores the URL and the date of the download.

All downloaded documents reside in the same folder on your harddisk. You may wonder how to keep an overview over your collection of documents. Since there should be an bibliographic entry you can use Bibwiki's search function to pick the needle out of the haystack. If there's no correspondig entry, Bibwiki looks through the folder and reports every document where the filename contains the search term.

6. Getting books from your library

Every bibliographic entry with an ISBN has a link to Amazon and an OPAC of your choice. This is useful if you want to check if a book is available at your library. Of course you can customize these links. You can see the links next to the ISBN in this screenshot.

Notice the small book covers on the right. Bibwiki fetches the book cover automatically from Amazon when a record has an ISBN.