PubsOnline: open source bibliography database

Universities and colleges, departments within universities and colleges, and individual researchers often desire the ability to provide online listings, via the Web, of citations to publications and other forms of information dissemination. Cataloging citations to publications or other forms of information dissemination by a particular organization facilitates access to the information, its use, and citation in subsequent publications. Listing, searching, and indexing of citations is further improved when citations can be searched on by additional key information, such as by grant, university resource, or research lab.This paper describes PubsOnline, an open source tool for management and presentation of databases of citations via the Web. Citations with bibliographic information are kept in the database and associated with attributes that are grouped by category and usable as search keys. Citations may optionally be linked to files containing an entire article. PubsOnline was developed with PHP and MySQL, and may be downloaded from http://pubsonline.indiana.edu/.