Bibus is a bibliographic and reference management software. As with other such tools, Bibus allows one to search, edit, and sort bibliographic records. In addition, Bibus contains features that makes it unique among open source and even commercial bibliographic databases:

Hierarchical organization of the references with user defined keys

Designed for multiuser environments

Database sharing among an "unlimited" number of users

Individual classification for each user

Ability to define read-only and read-write users

Live queries; that is searches that update as the database changes

Online PubMed queries

Online eTBLAST queries

Insertion of references and formatting of bibliographies into three widely used Word Processors (LibreOffice.org,OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word)

Foreign language support through Unicode and gettext. As of version 1.4, Bibus is available in English, Chinese, Czech, French, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovenian, Spanish.