[open-science] Press release: BibApp 1.0 released

[Dorothea Salo]

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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

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Dorothea Salo                dsalo at library.wisc.edu
Scholarly Research Services Librarian      AIM: mindsatuw
University of Wisconsin
Rm 330B, Memorial Library
(608) 262-5493