Astro::Bibcode
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This module provides the ability to parse standard astronomical
bibliography codes as used by CDS, NED and ADS. Using this module
information such as the year of publication, the journal name,
volume number and page number can be obtained.

This module is useful when combined with the Astro::ADS module,
also on CPAN, which returns bibcodes.

The bibcode specification can be obtained from

 http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/refcode.html

Currently this module is at v0.01 although it should handle 
most bibcode types.

Note that the module itself is quite large due to the inclusion
of the journal and conference proceedings lookup tables required to
convert a journal code to its full length.

A simple bibcode verification utility is provided (verifybib).

Installation
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Installs in the normal manner. No external modules are required.

  perl Makefile.PL
  make
  make test
  make install

History
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  v0.03  First public release (Aug 2004)

Author
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Tim Jenness (tjenness@cpan.org)

Copyright (C) 2004 Tim Jenness and the Particle Physics and
Astronomy Research Council.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
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Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

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