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P2P Bibliographies with Bibster

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the it's-a-monster dept.

Noksagt writes "P2P isn't just for government documents anymore! Bibster assists researchers in managing, searching, and sharing bibliographic data in a peer-to-peer network. This project shows great promise to researchers who currently search for citations through centralized servers (Google, Scirus, CiteSeer, ISI. and many others). By making it decentralized, researchers can share bibliographic data with no subscription costs and avoid typing this data in by hand. It can import and export citations using bibtex. The project is GPLed and free clients for windows and Linux are available. There's also a Sourceforge page for Bibster, so you can checkout from the CVS if the Bibster site is slow."

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  1. wait a minute... by Scythr0x0rs · · Score: 4, Funny

    this is news for nerds guys...
    the CVS server will slow down before the website.

  2. We Need a News Version of This! by lofi-rev · · Score: 3, Funny

    oh wait....

    Seriously, having a collaborative system for journalism with moderation and web of trust like elements could be wonderful - anyone got any bright ideas on how to do it?

  3. ahhh, p2p... by macshune · · Score: 4, Funny

    Future conversation between two illustrious academics:

    "Could you send over that citation for that lagomorph genome paper?"

    "Sure thing. I'll send some Steely Dan too, it helps me when I read papers about the lagomorph genome."

    "31337, thx."

  4. Shouldn't that be... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    P2P isn't just for pirating music anymore?

  5. Re: Psychic Answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm seeing a URL...no, a number. Yes, it starts with a 5. I believe it's past 500. It's becoming clearer...I see the number 503.

    Did you just ask a question? If you did, it appears the answer is "No"