RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX/BibTeX documents. It allows users to share databases over a network. It is accessible through command-line tools, through a web interface, from text editors (Emacs, Vim), and it contains a SRU server. Programmers can use Perl and PHP libraries to integrate RefDB functionality into their own projects. RefDB is released under the GNU General Public License and runs on Linux, the *BSDs, OS X, Solaris, and Windows/Cygwin.
BibDesk is a bibliographic reference manager for Mac OS X. BibDesk is designed to help organize and use bibliographic databases in BibTeX .bib format. In addition to manual typing, BibDesk lets you drag & drop or cut & paste .bib files into the bibliographic database and automatically opens files downloaded from PubMed. BibDesk also keeps track of electronic copies of literature on your computer and allows for searching your database through several keys.
BibDesk integrates well with TeX for creating citations and bibliographies. This integration includes a Citation search completion service, and drag & drop (cut & paste) support for adding citations to TeX files.
synapsen ist ein hypertextueller Zettelkasten, d.h. ein altbewährtes Speichermedium auf Basis einer elektronischen Literaturdatenbank, das Bibliographien zu verarbeiten erlaubt. Doch entgegen herkömmlicher Literaturverwaltungssoftware bietet synapsen ei
JabRef is an open source bibliography reference manager. The native file format used by JabRef is BibTeX, the standard LaTeX bibliography format. JabRef runs on the Java VM (version 1.5 or newer), and should work equally well on Windows, Linux and Mac O
social taging of bookmarks and pulications including bibtex and well formated output of publications. run by FG Wissensverarbeitung of Universität Kassel / L3S research center
This list provides a quick overview of the landscape of open-source bibliographic software; both where is has been, but more importantly, where it may yet go.