Many who would benefit the most from timesaving bibliographic managers hesitate to adopt the technology due to the difficulties in importing legacy bibliographies developed over years. Existing shortcuts rely on manual reformatting or on re-searching online databases for the records – often almost as laborious as retyping the references. Ref2RIS was developed to automate the task of converting a bibliography in specific citation styles from common word processing document formats into the widely used RIS format. It uses the Unix stream editor sed and the conversion options of Apple’s textutil. It can be invoked as a series of simple shell commands on any Linux terminal, or more simply as a drag-and-drop Applescript application on MacOS 10.4 or higher.

This paper presents MyTPL (http://www.mytpl.ca), a proof-of-concept web application intended to demonstrate that, with a little imagination, any library with a Z39.50 catalogue interface and a web server with some common open-source tools can readily provide their own location-aware mobile search application. The complete source code for MyTPL is provided under the GNU GPLv3 license, and is freely available at: http://github.com/mjsuhonos/mytpl

Welcoming new editors, and reflecting on the sustainability factor.

The Lemon8-XML software application, developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), provides an open-source, computer-assisted interface for reliable citation structuring and validation. Lemon8-XML combines citation parsing algorithms with freely-available online indexes such as PubMed, WorldCat, and OAIster. Fully-automated markup of entire bibliographies may be a genuine possibility using this approach. Automated markup of citations would increase bibliographic accuracy while reducing copyediting demands.

Contact the Code4Lib Journal editorial committee at c4ljournal@gmail.com. The Editorial Committee consists of the following: Edward M. Corrado, Naval Postgraduate School Mark Eaton, City University of New York Péter Király, Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen (GWDG) Peter Murray, Index Data Ron Peterson, Library of Congress Terry Reese, The Ohio State University Kirsta Stapelfeldt, University of […]