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]

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User features include:

• 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Article, Recorded Music Album, Recorded Music Track, Report/Documentation, Software, Statute, Thesis/Dissertation, Unpublished Work, Web Article, Web Encyclopedia, Web Encyclopedia Article, Web Site).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).
• View and export in various bibliographic styles including ABNT, Chicago, MLA, APA, Harvard, Turabian, British Medical Journal and IEEE.
• User-defined paging of long bibliographic lists.
• View all resources, quotes, paraphrases and musings or a single random one.
• One-click return to last bibliographic list or single view.
• Store up to 20 bookmarks for quick return to single views and resource lists.
• Add resources to a temporary basket for viewing and exporting.
• Select a visual style.
• Import WIKINDX resources into Zotero.

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Administrator features include:

• Builtin and LDAP auth.
• Design custom CSS templates for web browser display and integrate WIKINDX into an existing web site.
• Enable/disable multi-user mode, add users or allow user self-registration.
• Several levels of write and read only access.
• Delete resources.
• Add custom text fields to resources.
• Manage users and resource categories and sub-categories.
• Merge keywords into one keyword.
• Merge and group creators into one creator.
• Import bibliographies into WIKINDX and export bibliographies – Endnote, RIS, BibTeX, RTF, HTML, PubMed
• Manage plugins, visual templates, citation styles, and localizations.
• Add general news items and optionally email the item to registered users.
• Optionally receive email notification of user registrations.
• Provide a RSS feed of latest additions and edits.
• 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.

• Comparison of reference management software – Comparisons with similar packages