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Librarian is a free tool for self-creation of virtual annotated library of PDF articles, designed for small trusted groups, e.g. science labs.

Nowadays, the information flow, especially in Life sciences, accelerates swiftly. Thus, we are often facing the problem, how to keep pace and not to get lost in all the data. The more and more scientific journals are offering publications in digital form. We have hundreds or even thousands of articles as PDF files but to find one, just that one we need, is more and more difficult.

Librarian was designed to enable a small trusted group of researchers to create an annotated virtual library of articles in portable document format (PDF). All users may participate in the creation of the virtual library, and all users may then browse and search articles by words or phrases, much like at journal sites. The difference is that you have instant access to full text of the article, which you identified in seconds.


Librarian scheme

The program is installed on one computer with Apache, PHP and MySQL database on Windows, Linux, or Mac OS X. This computer will serve for storing PDFs and all data related to these files. The information (abstracts, titles...) are stored in MySQL database. Librarian provides these data, as well as PDF files, according to users requests to any number of machines connected to the net. Librarian is written in PHP and thus produces standard HTML output that can be read by IE5 or NN4 compatible internet browsers.

News:

May-28-08 Yes, it has been 4 years, since the last release of Librarian. I am happy to announce that next release of the software, now I, Librarian 2.0 is in its alpha stage and is ready for black box testing.

Oct-06-04 NCBI changed PubMed connection utilities. To get PubMed connection right, download 1.3 upgrade, which is patched now.

Oct-06-04 I received some complaints on Librarian bugs lately. They were all caused by PHP5 installation. Note that Librarian works only with PHP version 4!

Apr-08-04 Librarian 1.3 released. Read a note.

Aug-22-03 Librarian was featured in the Sept 8th issue of The Scientist journal.

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Disclaimer

Librarian is licensed under GPL and is freely distributable in its zip file. You are free to use it and change the code at your own risk. The author cannot be held responsible for any problems encountered while using this software.


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Librarian 1.3 is powered by PHP, Apache and MySQL. Project hosting and support kindly provided by Bioinformatics.Org.