Bibliography module

(Available soon... March2010)

The Bibliography module makes it easy to show and use bibliographic references in your Moodle course. It is contributed by Universidade do Porto, Nuno Barbosa and Susana Leitão. It was built based on the glossary module, using same code design and interface patterns.

It allows you to:

• Create different bibliography activities in a course
• Create instances in each bibliography
• Manually insert new entries in a bibliography activity
• View bibliographic references by citekey, date, author, instance
• Comment bibliography entries
• Let students contribute to bibliography with their own entries
• Import and export references in bibtex format

You can also install the bibliography filter and the html editor bibliography icon, which will let you reference to bibliography entries present in your course and automatically add them as a footnote reference list.

Installation

There are 3 major steps to install Bibliography module with all its features.

• Install the activity - which is the the core of the module
• Install the filter - enabling the inclusion of references from your course bibliographies in your web pages
• Install the html editor bib icon - which will allow you to easily select the bibliographic reference you want to include on your web page

Bibliography activity

• Select the "bibliography.zip" module for your moodle installation
• Uppack the zip file into the /moodle folder of your Moodle site
• Login to the Moodle site as administrator and
• In site administration block click on notifications
• Moodle will install the Bibliography module
• Add a Bibliography as an activity

Bibliography filter

• Select the "bibliography_filter.zip" for your moodle installation
• Uppack the zip file into the /moodle/filter folder of your Moodle site