From Bibus

Contents 1 General Documentation 2 Importing and exporting references 3 Users' contributions 4 Improving your bibliography 5 Tips and Tricks 6 Customizing Bibus 7 Database manipulations

General Documentation

• First steps with Bibus
• Bibus bibliographic database
• If you have problems of connection between Bibus and OOo
• How to setup a bibliography to be shared by many users on a remote computer
• Access Shared Database
• FAQ

Importing and exporting references

• Import from Endnote/Export to Endnote
• Importing Endnote 7 into Bibus with Fedora 6 and Bibus 1.3, which is a very common question asked by EndNote users that want to switch to Bibus.
• Pubmed search via proxy server
• Import Data from OpenOffice
• Bibus and RefWorks
• Bibus and ISI Web of Knowledge
• Bibus and Jabref
• Using Bibus with Other Software: General Considerations

Users' contributions

• Styles repository: bibliographic styles for various scientific journals - users can add their own styles
• Macros repository: download or add macros for openoffice or word that can be useful for bibus users
• Import and export filters: since bibus 1.5, users can add and share their own import/export filters.

Improving your bibliography

• Italicize words using OpenOffice.org
• Create a html formated reference list
• Adding prefixes and suffixes to citations in Bibus 1.3 like EndNote to make Bibus behave like EndNote.

Tips and Tricks

• Tips and Tricks
• How to insert [number] as reference
• Bibus doesn't open although I can see it in the Windows task bar
• Using Bibus with StarOffice
• Automatic creation of an edit history using MySQL 5
• How to "track changes" in Open Office and finalize bibliography in Bibus

Customizing Bibus

• Bibus translations
  • Starting Bibus in a non-English language (on Windows)
  • External links to translation files
• Bibus modifications
• Considering a column as numeric to sort the database
• Using Eclipse for Bibus Development
• Link your references both to Pubmed and a local pdf file

Database manipulations

• Direct access to the Bibus database (advanced users)
• Deleting references (outdated since version 1.4.*)
• MySQL to SQLite export
• Conversion of MySQL database
• How to setup a bibliography to be shared by many users on a remote computer
• Access Shared Database
• Update sqlite db 'URL' fields to point to local pdf's

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