ORPAL

Open Relational Personal Academic Library

What is ORPAL?

ORPAL is a reference manager for Windows utilizing a relational database. The interface focuses on easy searching, note-taking, and electronic article storage, but also supports traditional citation and bibliography management (in APA and MLA). ORPAL is open source and can be customized to support additional formats.

Features:

Fully Relational
- Articles/Chapters are linked to their "parent" Journal or Book . . .
- Authors are linked to articles . . .
- Each is fully editable, which then updates all associated refs
Advanced APA Reference Handling
- Imports RIS, ISI, and OVID reference files.
- Parses most refs in APA citation format
- Also parses journal article and book refs in MLA, Turabian, and some Chicago styles
Easy File/Location Keeping
- Drag and Drop Files to associate and name them
- Delayed File Moves. Manage files while they are open.
- Easily open any kind of file, a url, or just write a note
Multiple Find Options
- Categorize references in multi-level topic structure
- Full text searching for references and authors. With highlighting.
- Two clicks to display by author, type, or source
Notes
- Keep both an abstract and notes for each reference
- Keep notes about authors
- Separate field for storing author's websites.

And much more!

latest news

11/13/2007
ORPAL version 2.51 is posted on Sourceforge.

6/12/2007
ORPAL version 2.4 is posted on Sourceforge.