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BibDesk

BibDesk is a graphical bibliography manager for OS X, providing powerful BibTeX file management for Mac users. It is free and open-source. It is under active development by a small group of volunteer contributors and more are always welcome.

If you have a question about using BibDesk, please first check out the FAQ, then ask on the bibdesk-users mailing list (http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users).

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See BibDesk in Action

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Screenshots

See how everyone's using BibDesk, and share your own BibDesk habits:

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Movies

Check out one of these screencasts to see some of the ways BibDesk makes managing your reference database easy:

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What else does it do?

  • Drag and drop or copy and paste references from the web and other files
  • Open reference files from PubMed directly
  • Edit and search your reference database with ease
  • Keep PDF copies of papers filed automatically
  • Import references in many formats: RIS, Pubmed, Refer, MARC
  • Search online databases
    • PubMed
    • many public libraries using Z39.50
  • Powerful scripting
    • rich AppleScript support
    • script groups and input filters
  • Keep organized with keywords and smart groups
  • Use autocomplete in LaTeX editors for your cite-keys.

Below are archived pages from the website. They are to be replaced by Wiki pages.

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System Requirements

The current release of BibDesk requires Mac OS X version 10.4 or higher. Both PPC and Intel are supported.

Older releases of BibDesk are available (unsupported) that run on previous versions of OS X. BibDesk versions 1.2.x run on Mac OS X version 10.3.9 and higher. BibDesk versions 1.1.x and earlier run on Mac OS X version 10.2.8 and higher.

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Current Version

See the BibDesk main page (http://bibdesk.sf.net/) for download links and release notes.

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User Documentation

The most current version's User Manual (http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/) is available. This is the same information that's available from the Help menu inside BibDesk.

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What's on the Wiki

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About the wiki

User logins are required to edit pages, to avoid regrettable wiki spam. Email an administrator (eg Mike) to ask for a user account. You will get one as long as you're not a robot. You may even get one if you are a friendly robot.


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Contributor Kudos

BibDesk is a community project, and wouldn't be nearly as good without people pitching in to help code, test, and write documentation. Thanks to all our Contributors!

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