Biblioscape User Community

What is BiblioWeb

BiblioWeb is a web based database manager for researchers. It is designed to help researchers collecting references, taking notes, managing tasks, categorizing collections. Besides features for individual users, BiblioWeb promote collaboration among a group of users. Users with a common interests can form a group and share references collection among group members. Users can also collaborate on individual level by adding another user as a connection and share your project data with your connections. These social networking features plus a strong project based access control makes BiblioWeb an ideal tool for enterprise use.

What is new in BiblioWeb 9 

• BiblioWeb 9 is a complete rewrite from earlier versions of BiblioWeb. It has made most modules in Biblioscape available on the Web. These includes: References, Notes, Tasks, Categories, and Library modules.
• BiblioWeb 9 is a Web 2.0 product. Users can invite others to join the same network, add colleagues as connections and send them messages, form a group to promote a common interest. 
• BiblioWeb 9 allows users to control who can access their data at project level. All references, notes, tasks, etc. are organized into projects. A project owner can give his/her connections and the groups he/she joined Read, Write, or Super access privilege to the project.
• BiblioWeb 9 is Unicode based. All major languages are supported. Users can enter text in several languages for the same record.
• BiblioWeb 9 is designed to be usable on a smart phone browser. The minimum width needed is 480 pixels. So users can access all their research data from iPhone, iPod Touch, Android phones, etc. 

Which BiblioWeb community should I join

A BiblioWeb community is a place where many users put their data in a single database. There are two types of BiblioWeb communities: public community and private community. A public community can be joined by anyone. It is promoted on the web. A private community limits who can join by IP address, etc. It can also be installed behind company firewall. 

Biblioscape hosts several public communities for different science disciplines.  Anyone can join these communities. Biblioscape also hosts BiblioWeb communities for other organizations like universities, companies, and academic organizations. These BiblioWeb communities can be either a public one or a private one. If your organization wants to limit outside access for maximum security, BiblioWeb server can also be installed locally on company intraweb.