Bibliography manager for Linux, for use with both LaTeX and OpenOffice/Libreoffice, capable of handling large databases with ease

Features:

• Import from and export to BibTex

• Import records from DOI and PubMed identifiers

• Push citations to Texmaker/TexStudio

• Push citations to OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice. Advanced formatting of bibliographies piggybacks on JabRef. Thus, you need to have JabRef installed in order to fully use mbib with OOo/LO

• Written in Python3

• Console-based GUI, based on the urwid and urwidtrees Python libraries

• Data are stored in a SQLite database

Status: the code is reasonably complete and working. The documentation has a fairly thorough tutorial that covers most topics, but the reference part is missing.

If you want to try it out, here is a brief Howto:

• clone the repository, or download the zip archive and unzip it

• make sure the mbib directory is in your bash $PATH, and the mbib.sh script inside it is executable

• install the prerequisites: Python3, the urwid, urwidtrees, lxml, and requests Python3 packages; xsel

• open a shell window and run mbib.sh