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WIKINDX overview

Reference management, bibliography management, citations, article authoring system, and a whole lot more.

Designed by academics for academics, under continuous development since 2003, and used by both individuals and major research institutions worldwide, WIKINDX is a single and multi-user Virtual Research Environment (an enhanced on-line bibliography manager) storing searchable references, notes, files, citations, ideas, and more. It includes a WYSIWYG word processor exporting formatted articles to Rich Text Format (RTF) and HTML. Among many other features, admins can create their own citation styles and users can import/export bibliographies (BibTeX, Endnote, RIS etc.). WIKINDX supports multiple attachments with each reference, multiple language localizations, and uses a template system to allow users to visually integrate WIKINDX into their sites. Further information can be found at WIKINDX.

WIKINDX runs on a web server giving you and your research group ownership and global access from any web-enabled device. You manage your database, you own your data.

WIKINDX is widely used around the world including at NASA and a range of universities and research institutions. Some WIKINDX users:

• Game Audio
• Virtual Harmony, Virual Harmony AI bibliography
• Monero Research Lab
• Arbeitsgemeinschaft Objektive Hermenutik, Association for Objective Hermeneutics
• Malvern Radar and Technology History Society
• The Fraunhofer Institute, TTCN-3
• University of Bonn, Online-Bibliographie zur Comicforschung
• Ordine delle Professioni Infermieristiche di Roma, Indice della Letteratura Italiana di Scienze Infermieristiche

Features

Listed below are the core features available by default. Functionality can be extended with plugins and other add-ins.

User

• 41 resource types (Artwork, Audiovisual, Bill, Book, Book Article, Book Chapter Number, Broadcast, Brochure, Chart/Image, Classical Work, Conference Paper, Conference Poster, Film, Government Report/Documentation, Hearing, Journal Article, Legal Case, Legal Rule/Regulation, Magazine Article, Manuscript, Map, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Section, Music Score, Newspaper Article, Online Database, Patent, Personal Communication, Proceedings, Proceedings Article, Recorded Music Album, Recorded Music Track, Report/Documentation, Software, Statute, Thesis/Dissertation, Unpublished Work, Web Article, Web Encyclopedia, Web Encyclopedia Article, Web Site).
• 29 translations included for major languages (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Portuguese [Brazil], Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian).
• Multi-user mode – create and manage your own bibliographies drawn from the WIKINDX master bibliography and browse other users’ bibliographies. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
• Create user groups and user group bibliographies. (Must be enabled by the administrator).
• Save your own preferences.
• Enter/edit bibliographic resources.
• Add and search unlimited file attachments to each resource. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
• Catalogue resources by categories, sub-categories and keyword(s).
• Enter/edit a general note about the whole resource.
• Enter/edit quotes and paraphrases from those resources.
• Enter/edit thoughts or musings on various aspects of a resource (can be private or public).
• Enter/edit ideas that are independent of resources.
• Add keywords to resource metadata such as quotes, paraphrases and musings.
• Cross-reference other WIKINDX resources from within quotes, paraphrases, musings, ideas, notes and abstracts.
• Edit keywords, creators, publishers and journals.
• Comprehensive search across all the above with highlighting of search terms using either Quick Search or the flexible Advanced Search.
• Reorder bibliographic lists by first creator, title, resource type, publisher, year of publication or timestamp.
• Browse all creators, publishers, collections, categories and keywords with font colour and size indicating frequency of occurrence.
• Unlimited primary creators, editors, translators and revisers, composers, agents, performers etc.
• Export bibliographic lists (optionally annotated) with a range of formatting options to Rich Text Format (RTF) files for easy insert into word processors or to HTML.
• Export ideas with a range of formatting options to Rich Text Format (RTF) files for easy insert into word processors or to HTML.
• Cut ’n’ Paste BibTeX entries to the database (amount limited by the administrator).
• View and export in various bibliographic styles including Chicago, MLA, APA, Harvard, Turabian, British Medical Journal and IEEE.
• User-defined paging of long bibliographic lists.
• View all resources, quotes, paraphrases and musings or a single random one.
• One-click return to last bibliographic list or single view.
• Store up to 20 bookmarks for quick return to single views and resource lists.
• Add resources to a temporary basket for viewing and exporting.
• Select a visual style.
• Import WIKINDX resources into Zotero.
• And much, much more …

Administrator

• Builtin and LDAP auth.
• Design your own CSS templates for web browser display and integrate WIKINDX into your existing web site.
• Enable/disable multi-user mode, add users or allow user self-registration.
• Several levels of write and read only access.
• Delete resources.
• Add custom text fields to resources.
• Manage users and resource categories and sub-categories.
• Merge keywords into one keyword.
• Merge and group creators into one creator.
• Import bibliographies into WIKINDX and export bibliographies – Endnote, RIS, BibTeX, RTF, HTML, PubMed
• Manage plugins, visual templates, citation styles, and localizations.
• Add general news items and optionally email the item to registered users.
• Optionally receive email notification of user registrations.
• Provide a RSS feed of latest additions and edits.
• WIKINDX resources can be optionally indexed by Google Scholar.
• WIKINDX has an architecture enabling the easy writing of plugins to expand its features.
• User registration requests implement anti-spam/bot measures.
• Attachments can be embargoed (blocked from public view) until a specified date – the embargo is automatically lifted on or after the specified date. Until that time, only admins can view embargoed attachments.
• And much, much more…

Import/Export formats

Note: if you install the Bibutils plugin (see below), you can import and export many more formats than WIKINDX provides natively.

Format	Import	Export
BibTeX	X	X
EndNote	X	X
HTML		X
PubMed	X
RIS		X
RTF		X

Word Processor

• The core code includes a WYSIWYG word processor (previously available as a plugin) in which you can write academic articles and monographs.
  • Export to HTML or to Rich Text Format (which then allows further processing in a stand-alone word processor and conversion to other formats such as DOCX and PDF).
  • On exporting, the citations are formatted to a chosen styles with a range of options such as where to place the bibliography/endnotes, page numbering, automatic blockquote indenting, and more.
  • Word processor features include: insertion of images, tables, lists, font formatting, split into sections (which might be chapters in a monograph), and citing of WIKINDX resources.

Components

WIKINDX uses a components system to extend or alter its capabilities. All offical components are available from our Components Update Server and are configurable from the WIKINDX interface. You could also write your own components and contribute to the community of users.

Some Plugins

• IdeaGen – randomly selects and displays two items of metadata (quotes, paraphrases, musings, or ideas) in the hope that the new juxtaposition might lead to serendipity
• Bibutils – convert between a number of bibliographic formats in preparation for an import into WIKINDX
• SoundExplorer – experimental aural notification of selected resource additions
• ChooseLanguage – quickly select a new language
• AdminStyle – create and edit bibliographic/citation styles
• LocalDescription – change the front-page description depending on the user-selected localization
• Visualize – create various graphical visualizations from WIKINDX data with the JpGraph PHP library.X
• RepairKit – fix corrupted character codes in imported data, missing rows, database integrity, and other fixes. The Swiss Army Knife for WIKINDX . . .
• BackupMysql – back up the WIKINDX
• DbAdminer – embed a db editor for debug/admin
• DebugTools – get useful debugging info

Bibliographic styles

There are a variety of bibliographic and citation styles available from the Components Update Server like:

• American Psychological Association (APA)
• Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas (ABNT)
• British Medical Journal (BMJ)
• Chicago (author-date)
• Chicago (footnotes)
• Comicforschung-Bibliographie Stil (CFB)
• Harvard
• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Modern Language Association (MLA)
• Turabian
• Wikindx

Some of these styles are author-date, some are footnote, and some are endnote styles. The endnote style can either be incrementing endnotes or can use the same ID for the same subsequent citation.

Create your own styles and contribute to our public repository of bibliographic styles!

Templates

We provide basic themes. Fork one of them and build your own.