Biblio::Refbase
===============

Biblio::Refbase is an object-oriented interface to refbase
Web Reference Database sites.

refbase (http://www.refbase.net/) is a web-based bibliographic manager
which can import and export references in various formats (including BibTeX,
Endnote, MODS and OpenOffice).


SYNOPSIS

    use Biblio::Refbase;

    $refbase = Biblio::Refbase->new(
      'url'      => 'http://beta.refbase.net/',
      'user'     => 'guest@refbase.net',
      'password' => 'guest',
    );
    $response = $refbase->search(
      'keywords' => 'baltic sea',  # Search in keywords.
      'style'    => 'Chicago',     # Set citation style.
    );
    if ($response->is_success) {   # all methods from
      if ($response->hits) {       # HTTP::Response
        print $response->content;  # available
      }
      else {
        print 'Nothing found!';
      }
    }
    else {
      print 'An error occurred: ', $response->status_line;
    }
    print "\n\n";

    $response = $refbase->upload(
      'user'       => 'user@refbase.net',  # Switch user for
      'password'   => 'user',              # this request.
      'show'       => 1,                   # Return records
      'format'     => 'BibTeX',            # in BibTeX format.
      'source_ids' => [                    # Upload records
        'arXiv:cs/0106057',                # from arXiv.org
        'arXiv:cond-mat/0210361',          # via source IDs.
      ],
    );
    if ($response->is_success) {
      print 'Number of records imported: ', $response->rows   , "\n";
      print 'ID range of records: '       , $response->records, "\n";
      print "Records:\n\n",  $response->content;
    }

    # Upload records by supplying a string of content:
    # $response = $refbase->upload('content' => $content);


INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test
    make install


DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules:

    Carp
    HTTP::Request::Common
    HTTP::Status
    LWP::UserAgent
    Test::More            (required by "make test")
    URI
    URI::QueryParam


DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with
the perldoc command:

    perldoc Biblio::Refbase


COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE

Copyright (c) 2008 Henning Manske. All rights reserved.

This module is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.

See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

This module is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.