[okfn-discuss] Fwd: [open-science] Press release: BibApp 1.0 released

Thu Jul 1 15:40:28 UTC 2010

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> From: Dorothea Salo <dorothea.salo at gmail.com>
> Date: July 1, 2010 10:36:38 AM CDT
> To: JISC-REPOSITORIES at jiscmail.ac.uk, SPARC Open Access Forum <SPARC-OAForum at arl.org>, open-science at lists.okfn.org, SPARC Institutional Repositories Discussion List <SPARC-IR at arl.org>, REPOMAN-L at listserv.indiana.edu
> Subject: [open-science] Press release: BibApp 1.0 released
> 
> (This message is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse duplication.)
> 
> 
> The BibApp development team is happy and proud to announce the 1.0
> release of BibApp!
> 
> BibApp is a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches
> researchers on your campus or research center with their publication
> data and mines that data to see collaborations, create visualizations
> of areas of research, and find experts in research areas. With BibApp,
> it is easy to see what publications can be placed on the Web for
> greater access and impact. BibApp can push those publications directly
> into an institutional repository.
> 
> BibApp allows researchers and research groups to promote research,
> find collaborators on campus, and make research more accessible. It
> also allows libraries to better understand research happening in local
> departments, facilitate conversations about author rights with
> researchers, and ease the population of the institutional repository.
> Finally, BibApp allows campus administrators to achieve a clearer
> picture of collaboration and scholarly publishing trends on campus.
> 
> BibApp is the result of a collaboration between the University of
> Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
> The Illinois Informatics Institute at the University of Illinois
> (https://www.informatics.illinois.edu/icubed/) provided generous
> funding for the development of the 1.0 release of BibApp.
> 
> BibApp is a Ruby on Rails application, coupled with the Solr/Lucene
> search engine, and either MySQL or PostgreSQL as its datastore. It
> uses open standards and protocols such as OpenURL and SWORD and
> automatically pulls in data from third party sources such as Google
> Books and the Sherpa/Romeo publisher policy database. BibApp imports
> publication data in RIS, MEDLINE and Refworks XML bibliography formats
> and exports data in several citation formats (APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA,
> more) via CiteProc. BibApp also provides a web services API for
> delivering data as XML, YML, JSON, and RDF. BibApp is released under a
> University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License
> (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php).
> 
> Live installations of BibApp can be found at:
> 
>    * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign --
> http://connections.ideals.illinois.edu
>    * The MBLWHOI Library at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution --
> http://bibapp.mbl.edu/
>    * The University of Kansas Medical Center -- http://experts.kumc.edu/
> 
> Next steps for the project include a 1.1 release that will include
> internationalization and a richer authentication/authorization system.
> The team is also in the process of expanding the development community
> around BibApp.
> 
> For software downloads, contact information, and more information
> about BibApp, please visit http://www.bibapp.org/, and also follow on
> Twitter at http://twitter.com/bibapp.
> 
> 
> Dorothea
> 
> -- 
> Dorothea Salo                dsalo at library.wisc.edu
> Scholarly Research Services Librarian      AIM: mindsatuw
> University of Wisconsin
> Rm 330B, Memorial Library
> (608) 262-5493
> 
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