BIBLIOGRAPHIC COMMONS:

USING OPEN-SOURCE
CITATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
TO CREATE FREELY ACCESSIBLE
ONLINE BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASES

Luis A. González
Indiana University-Bloomington
SALALM LV ~ Providence, July 23-27, 2010
Researching Brazil/
Pesquisa no Brasil website

An integrated platform for

aiding discovery:
 organized access to portals
 full-text collections
 print reference sources
 journal indexing (bilingual)
 Evolution of Researching Brazil

First launched in 2000

New design and migration in 2007
Researching Brazil Bibliographic Index

Selective indexing of Brazilian journal literature

 literature review articles

 conceptual or theoretical debates
 pieces describing library or archival collections
 works on research methodologies, and
 interviews with leading Brazilian and international
scholars
Requirements for installing refbase

To install the refbase package you need:

the refbase scripts

a web server

the PHP programming language

a MySQL database

For more information about refbase requirements, see

www.refbase.net/index.php/Requirements.
Bibliographic Index homepage
Bibliographic Index homepage
Search Example: Sources & Slavery
Record Details
Record with abstract and link to full-text
RSS Feed
Enhancements to Researching Brazil

 Implement cross-linking
 Migrate site to new server
 Redesign the interface and translate it into
Portuguese
 Index additional history and social science journals
New Projects
Moraleja, or a few things to think about

 Open-source and open-access software

 Technical expertise
 Collaboration with colleagues
 Internship

 These are doable projects!!!