WIKINDX is a free bibliographic and quotations/notes management and article authoring system (virtual research environment) designed either for single use (on a variety of operating systems) and multi-user collaborative use across the internet.[2] WIKINDX falls within the category of reference management software, but also provides functionality to write notes and entire papers.[3]
41 resource types (Artwork, Audiovisual, Bill, Book, Book Article, Book Chapter Number, Broadcast, Brochure, Chart/Image, Classical Work, Conference Paper, Conference Poster, Film, Government Report/Documentation, Hearing, Journal Article, Legal Case, Legal Rule/Regulation, Magazine Article, Manuscript, Map, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Section, Music Score, Newspaper Article, Online Database, Patent, Personal Communication, Proceedings, Proceedings Article, Recorded Music Album, Recorded Music Track, Report/Documentation, Software, Statute, Thesis/Dissertation, Unpublished Work, Web Article, Web Encyclopedia, Web Encyclopedia Article, Web Site).
29 translations included for major languages (Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Portuguese, Portuguese [Brazil], Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian).
Multi-user mode – create and manage bibliographies drawn from the WIKINDX master bibliography and browse other users' bibliographies. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
Create user groups and user group bibliographies. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
Save custom preferences.
Enter/edit bibliographic resources.
Add and search unlimited file attachments to each resource. (Must be enabled by the administrator.)
Catalogue resources by categories, sub-categories and keyword(s).
Enter/edit a general note about the whole resource.
Enter/edit quotes and paraphrases from those resources.
Enter/edit thoughts or musings on various aspects of a resource (can be private or public).
Enter/edit ideas that are independent of resources.
Add keywords to resource metadata such as quotes, paraphrases and musings.
Cross-reference other WIKINDX resources from within quotes, paraphrases, musings, ideas, notes and abstracts.
Edit keywords, creators, publishers and journals.
Comprehensive search across all the above with highlighting of search terms using either Quick Search or the flexible Advanced Search.
Reorder bibliographic lists by first creator, title, resource type, publisher, year of publication or timestamp.
Browse all creators, publishers, collections, categories and keywords with font colour and size indicating frequency of occurrence.
Unlimited primary creators, editors, translators and revisers, composers, agents, performers etc.
Import bibliographies into WIKINDX and export bibliographies – Endnote, RIS, BibTeX, RTF, HTML, PubMed. (Import must be enabled by the administrator.)
Export bibliographic lists (optionally annotated) with a range of formatting options to Rich Text Format (RTF) files for easy insert into word processors or to HTML.
Export ideas with a range of formatting options to Rich Text Format (RTF) files for easy insert into word processors or to HTML.
Cut 'n' Paste BibTeX entries to the database (amount limited by the administrator).
WIKINDX resources can be optionally indexed by Google Scholar.
WIKINDX has an architecture enabling the easy writing of plugins to expand its features.
User registration requests implement anti-spam/bot measures.
Attachments can be embargoed (blocked from public view) until a specified date – the embargo is automatically lifted on or after the specified date. Until that time, only admins can view embargoed attachments.