What is BibApp?

The BibApp is a Campus Research Gateway and Expert Finder.

BibApp lets you:

• find experts and current collaborations happening on your campus
• promote the research of a department, school, or research group
• increase the impact of campus research
• easily reuse publication data

BibApp matches researchers on your campus with their publication data and allows you to mine the data to see collaborations and to find experts in research areas. BibApp makes it easy to see what publications can be archived for greater access and impact and makes it easy to push those publications directly into an institutional or other repository.

What are the benefits of BibApp?

For researchers, BibApp allows you to:

• promote your research
• find collaborators on campus
• make your research more accessible
• reuse your publication history in other applications

For research groups, departments, and schools, BibApp allows you to:

• promote the range of research in your unit
• understand the collaborations happening within your unit and others on campus
• make the research of your unit more accessible

For librarians, BibApp allows you to:

• better understand research happening in your departments
• facilitate conversations about author rights with researchers
• ease the population of your institutional or other repository
• get a clearer picture of scholarly publishing trends on your campus

What is the schedule for BibApp's development and release?

A 1.0 stable release is planned for Summer 2009.

If you'd like to preview an early release of the software, feel free to checkout the latest source code (trunk), and follow our latest installation instructions.

For a list of planned features in each upcoming release, please see our RoadMap

Who works on BibApp?

We are a small, but committed group of librarians and technology staff from two great universities.

• University of Wisconsin-Madison
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

And a few people sprinkled elsewhere, who participate a little bit. We call them Friends. Let us know if you are interested in helping out with the development of BibApp!

Want to know more?

Visit http://bibapp.org for screencasts, presentations and more.

More questions? Contact us on our BibApp Google Group.