I, Librarian
The real power of Librarian is in its Intranet capabilities.
The Scientist
I, Librarian is a free and open source web application to build an annotated library of scientific PDF articles. It is suitable for individuals as well as for small collaborative groups, like science labs or departments. Download I, Librarian now!
Try I, Librarian, if you want a web-based bibliography manager that is:
  • easy to install
  • fast
  • streamlined
  • easy to use
  • feature-rich

I, Librarian is a PDF manager or PDF organizer, which enables individual researchers or a small group of researchers to create an annotated collection of PDF articles. Users may build the virtual library collaboratively, thus sharing the workload of literature mining. I, Librarian enables smart browsing and fast searching in reference data and PDF files. By installing I, Librarian, you will build your local web site with practical environment for your work with PDF files. You will also gain an advanced tool to mine scientific literature from PubMed, PubMed Central, NASA ADS, arXiv, JSTOR® and HighWire Press®.

Back-end. I, Librarian is written in PHP and stores all PDF annotations in SQLite database files. I, Librarian is therefore very portable and truly cross-platform.
News:
Aug-27-2011 I, Libarian 2.3 released, brings multi- tasking and PDF viewer. New version brings a redesign of the user interface. I, Librarian now uses AJAX heavily. It means that it is now easier to do multitasking. You can now also opt to use an internal PDF viewer.



Disclaimer
I, Librarian is licensed under GPLv3. The program is provided "as is" without warranty of any kind. In no event can the author be liable to you for damages arising out of the use or inability to use this software.

Credits. I, Librarian includes other open-source software: Xpdf, Poppler, jQuery, jQuery UI, jQuery Form, jGrowl, Tipsy, jQuery File Tree, jCrop, jQuery.clickNScroll, jMediaelement, TinyMCE, YUI, Bibutils, Ghostscript, and InstallJammer. The source code of these programs is available for download from their respective web sites. Hosting of this project is kindly provided by Bioinformatics.Org. The image used on top is from the painting "The Bookworm" by Carl Spitzweg, cca. 1850.
 
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