Creation date: 2004.05.18 Last revision: 2005.02.13 ************************************************** ** IF YOU ARE UPGRADING FROM A PREVIOUS VERSION ** ** YOU MUST READ importantNote.txt ** ************************************************** Bibus is a bibliographic database. It has been developed with OpenOffice.org (http://www.openoffice.org/) in mind. This means that the database is modeled on OpenOffice.org bibliographic database engine. As such it has the features and the limitations of this format. This may change in the future. ************* ** License ** ************* Copyright 2004 Pierre Martineau <pmartino@users.sourceforge.net> Bibus is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. Bibus is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Bibus; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA. Other files included in the distribution: Part of the Wizard code included in dbWizard.py and dbBibSQLite.py has been copied from the example "Simple Wizard" included with wxPython ******************* ** Main Features ** ******************* 1) Compatible with two database engines: MySQL <http://www.mysql.com/> and SQLite <http://www.sqlite.org/>. 2) Hierarchical organization of the references with user defined keys. 3) Designed for multiuser. - You can share the database between an "unlimited" number of users. - Each user will have its own classification. 4) Search engine. 5) On-line PubMed access. 6) Live queries. 7) Connection to OpenOffice.org. - You can insert references the open OpenOffice.org text document and - format the bibliography directly in Bibus. - format the citations in Bibus. 8) Thanks to Python and wxWidget, Bibus should work on most modern platform (linux/gtk; Windows; MacOS; etc...). 9) Foreign language support through unicode and gettext. - For the moment, Bibus is available in English and in French (I'm French). - Feel free to translate it in your favorite language, this is easy and fast. It took me about 1 hour to translate the pot file in French. 10) Import PubMed (Medline), EndNote/Refer and RIS records ****************** ** Installation ** ****************** The installation is for the moment a bit tricky. This is due to the fact that Bibus is entirely written in Python (http://www.python.org/) with the wxWidget library (http://www.wxwidget.org/ and http://www.wxPython.org/) and that the python-uno bridge installed with OpenOffice.org does not contain all those libraries. You must read the doc! ********************* ** Where to go now ** ********************* 1) Read LinuxInstall.html for linux and installationWin.txt for Windows 2) Finish with mysql_config.txt if you want to use a MySQL database Enjoy PS: If Bibus worked for you and now crash at startup, there is presumably some problem with the configuration file. - Under linux it is an hidden file called .bibus and located in your $HOME. - Under Windows95 and up it is a registry key called bibus. Delete the file/registry key and try to start bibus again.