OSBW Existing Software

List of Existing Open Source Book Widget Software and Projects

Amazon Einzeltitellinks

Author: Dietmar Mitterer-Zublasing

Plugin homepage: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/amazon-einzeltitellinks/

License: unknown

Description

Includes book cover and link (option: with amazon partner id) to amazon in blog posting.

Amazon Book Picture

Author: Serhat Cinar

Plugin homepage: http://narcanti.keyboardsamurais.de/amazon-book-picture.html

License: unknown

Description

Include a simple tag with a books asin or isbn in your posts which is replaced by an image of that book from amazon.

ISBN2WP

Author: Christian Hauschke

Plugin homepage: http://infobib.de/blog/2008/08/20/isbn2wp-alpha-release/

License: GNU GPL

Description

The plugin grabs bibliographic data (Dublin Core) the Common Union Catalogue via SRU, adds a search link to GVK via SeeAlso (I currently use isbn2gso) and includes a OpenUrl COinS.

Openbook Wordpress Plugin

Author: John Miedema

Plugin homepage: http://johnmiedema.ca/openbook-wordpress-plugin/

License: unknown

Description

OpenBook WordPress Plugin inserts a book cover, title, author, and publisher in WordPress, like the example in this page, or like the example in the sidebar. It links to detailed book information in the data source, Open Library. OpenBook also links to the library record in WorldCat, and inserts COinS so that other applications like Zotero can pick up the book data. OpenBook is useful for book reviewers, book bloggers, library webmasters, anyone who to put book covers and other book data on their WordPress website.

Research Blogging and CrossRef

Author: CrossRef (?)

Plugin homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/crossref-cite/

License: GNU GPL

Description

Look up a reference at [1] and include DOI citation in blog posting.