kriztioan/adb

A searchable web-based citation and article database application

Article Database

Article Database (AdB) is a searchable web-based citation and article (PDF) database application. AdB is written in C++ and relies on the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) for communication with its webserver. There is tight integration with the NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) using their web API (free token needed). This allows easy importing of citations and papers (PDF) into AdB. In addition, citations can be imported using DOIs, which relies on the services provided by Crossref. Existing BibTeX bibliographies can be directly imported into AdB as well.

Citations can be exported as BibTeX, MSWord, and text. PDFjs is included to view article PDFs directly from within AdB.

Optionally, AdB translates BibTeX journal abbreviations from a bibliography database file that provides mnemonics, e.g., those used by the ADS.

There are a number of tools for organizing and maintaining AdB. These include a duplicates record finder, re-indexing, and a DOI finder for records missing one (via crossref). Furthermore, one can list all keywords and authors in present in AdB.

The look of AdB is theme-able, with a number of themes included by default.

Usage

Building AdB requires the following to be available and/or installed:

1. cmake
2. GNU C++ compiler
3. jemalloc
4. openssl
5. rapidjson
6. pkg-config

The web application is build with:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../
make

This produces a directory called adb that should be moved into your webserver root directory. Using a web browser you can then navigate to:

http://localhost/adb/index.cgi

and start using the application.

Theming

AdB uses Cascading Stylesheet (css) theming. A number of themes are provided in the plugins-directory, which is a good place to start your own theming.

Notes

1. The GNU C++ compiler is hardcoded to g++-12 in CMakeLists.txt, change if needed.
2. The OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR is hardcoded to /usr/local/Cellar/openssl@3/3.0.7 in CMakeLists.txt, change if needed.
3. The PEM certificate file used by AdB defaults to /private/etc/ssl/cert.pem, change if needed under Config→DOI CrossRef→PEM.

BSD-3 License

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

3. Neither the name of the copyright holder nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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