Hi,

Here are some of the wish list for the next major release:
* Batch Operations: Uploading multiple files
I recently had this problem - I was trying to add big list of references - I was limited by php execution time of a script & no access to change the same in php.ini file. So, I had to break the big list into smaller pieces and add one by one. Uploading multiple files might make things a lot easier.

*Support for Other input formats like xml or ris.
Though bibtex is one of the popular formats - there are many other formats which are even more popular like xml. Support for those will be nice.
This can be done two ways:
a) With Existing Solution: Use tools like bibutils to convert xml -> bibtex and reuse the existing code to parse and add it to database.
b) New Solution: Native Support for xml & ris - although this might require parsing and validating....which can be a big pain.
I was able to get an xml converted to bibtex and add it to the database using first option with very little work - clearly defined & modular bibtex component code helped me a lot :-)

*Support for different types of users:
Currently, there is an option that lets you choose whether an user can edit or not. On top of that, can there be a category of joomla users who can do what operations? Joomla already has different type of users - it can follow that.

I am willing to work on some of these ones - if Mark intends to do it. Let me know. Thanks.

No problem. I am very new to Joomla development - so, it will be a while before I understand how I can use existing core classes. I will keep you updated.

Ability to order or search the back end would be very useful as finding things in the back is not easy.