»The Palestine Shadow Library is a fugitive attempt to gather, index and circulate a meaningful #bibliography on #Palestine«
»The Palestine Shadow Library is a fugitive attempt to gather, index and circulate a meaningful #bibliography on #Palestine«
We are excited that we are participating in #GSOC2026 with 3 projects:
- "Improved handling of older documents with OCR and AI-powered tools."
- "Improved #LibreOffice -JabRef integration" with one particular aspect of compatibility with other reference managers.
- "Improving startup times for JabKit" by leveraging the power of #GraalVM
#javafx #jabref #academia #bibtex #TexLatex #opensource #bibliography
cc @frankdelporte @foojay
Books and history, history and books. The path is broad and open. Where it leads is over the horizon, yet down the path I go, with books in hand.
Another notable & interesting title mentioned in our April's newsletter:
A brief outline of the history of libraries by Justus Lipsius
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78256/
Written in 1602, Lipsius's Syntagma de Bibliothecis is a short Latin scholarly treatise tracing the history of libraries from antiquity. It surveys the great libraries of the ancient world — Egyptian, Greek, and Roman — describing their origins, collections, and fates.
PG's April newsletter:
https://www.gutenberg.org/newsletter/

Comprehensive Strategic Intelligence and Military Assessment: Operation Epic Fury and the April 2026 Crisis Trajectory Executive Summary of the Geopolitical and Operational Environment As of April 7, 2026, the global security environment has been fundamentally destabilized by the escalating traje...
The Invisible Infrastructure of Academic Publishing
A JabRef contributor wrote this nice article for his university course:
https://kai505.medium.com/the-invisible-infrastructure-of-academic-publishing-48772c9606f8