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There are several (free and non-free) reference managers in the "market".
Zotero is one of them, JabRef is another, personally I use (and recommend)
Bibus. 
There are even more. A comparison can be found 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_reference_management_software
here . 
Most can handle BibTex. 

It seems to me that implied in the original post is the question whether
LibO should join this "market", offering a (full fledged?)
bibliography/reference manager.
This will require, of course, the ability to directly import Bibtex files.

My impression is that: 
(1) there are plenty of good-enough (and getting better) reference manager
programs;
(2) developing a good one is not trivial;
(3) the variety of programs indicate a variety of needs and usage style -
implementing one in LibO might make people unhappy with LibO because they
don't like the way it handles bibliography, which is not its main object in
the first place...

so I think that LibO should focus on providing a good and easy to use
interface (API?) for other /programs/ that take bibliography/reference as
their main business. 

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