Bibweb home page

Bibweb is a utility for automatically retrieving bibliographical information from the American Mathematical Society's MathSciNet program.

If you're too lazy to go to the library or use a web browser to find out bibliographical information for that ground-breaking paper you're writing, you can let bibweb do the work for you. You have to use bibtex (which means you have to use latex, I think), and you have to write citations in a particular format, but that's about it.

• Current version: 0.61, released 21 November 2006. Download the program (size: 11k)
• Documentation and related information: Download a gzipped tar file (size: 40k)

You can read some documentation online:

• documentation in dvi format.
• documentation in html format.

• I have changed the bibtex comment string to "@comment" and added an option "-lax": "bibweb -lax" uses "%" for the comment character. (% is not an official bibtex comment character, though it does seem to work.)
• I have switched from using an external program (like wget or lynx) for web browsing to using perl packages, thus making the program more "self-contained" (which is fine if you have a reasonable perl installation; otherwise, you may have to go to CPAN to download the appropriate packages).
• I think bibweb is compatible with the most recent update to MathSciNet (as of 19 November 2003).