Use for literature management

[Jens Decker]

In addition to software development issues I would like to use Jira

for managing literature links and document files within a group of

about 50 people to be able to share documents, comments, ...

Are there any templates or definitions available somewhere which

could be used as a starting point? I'm rather new to Jira (just a

few days working with it)

Using Jira (instead of confluence) would allow as to use a single tool

for our application chemists and I guess that search, sorting of

papers into components and alike would be more easy - but I'm using

confluence only from time to time in an active way.

[Renjith Pillai · Accepted solution]

There is an article from Atlassian on this topic. See http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFEVAL/Using+JIRA+for+a+Knowledge+Base

[Dennis Kromhout van der Meer]

To be honest, I think that Confluence would be a better solution for this, it supports templates, revisions and sharing documents and comments out of the box. I've heard of several cases where Confluence was used for literature management and creating complete books :)