T. R. Shankar Raman , Maitreyi Hegde, Pooja Y. Pawar, Aparajita Datta

Bibliographic databases and citation tools are integral aids to research. The Asian Hornbill Bibliography presents a compendium of research on Asian hornbills by combining an open access bibliographic database with the free and open source reference manager, Zotero. The bibliography, also hosted and made accessible from the IUCN Hornbill Specialist Group website, includes 725 publications, including books, book chapters, journal articles, reports, conference proceedings, general articles, and media reports. Here, we describe the process of parsing an initial list of references stored in a word document to an appropriate bibliographic format and its subsequent import into a Zotero Group Library created to be public and open. Hornbill researchers can freely use the bibliography, join the Zotero Group or copy the bibliography for their use. Researchers can use Zotero plugins to insert citations in manuscripts and generate reference lists formatted in accordance with any of more than 10,000 citation styles. A static, annually updated version of the Bibliography is also available under a Creative Commons license. The Asian Hornbill Bibliography will be dynamically updated by continuously updating the database of references in the Zotero Group Library using available easy-to-use citation import tools or manual entry, if required. The Asian Hornbill Bibliography will be expanded to be an authoritative and valuable research aid for hornbill researchers worldwide.