New on CTAN: bibupdate

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:11:09 +0100
Andrew Mathas submitted the

                bibupdate

package.

Version: 2.1.0
License: gpl3+

Summary description: Automatically update the entries in a BibTeX file

Announcement text:This is a command line tool for updating the entries in a BibTeX file using the free tools provided by the American Mathematical Society: mrlookup, MathSciNet and MRef. By default bibupdate uses mrlookup to update `article`, `book`, `inproceedings` and `incollection` entries when they do not have an `mrnumber` field. Entries are not updated if they already have an `mrnumber` field, even an empty one, unless `--all` or `--check` is used. With the `-X` option, bibupdate looks for each paper in the arXiv and adds `eprint` and `archiveprefix` fields for all ghe papers that it finds.

By default, bibupdate writes the updated entries to a new file, with the filename given by adding a "updated_" prefix. USing the  update the bib file in place, use the `--overwrite` option. This should be used with care because you can potentially lose data.

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New on CTAN: bibupdate
