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

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The Invisible Infrastructure of Academic Publishing

Behind every bibliography is a system most researchers never think about.

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Following up on that I've updated TeXstudio to it's latest release 4.9.3.

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