On Dec 13, 2007, at 2:57 PM, Jan Michael wrote: > I'm new to BibDesk and I'm wondering what is the best way to add a > website as a publication? > For example I'd like to have > > <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BibDesk> > > as a new reference. The normal way for me would be adding a new > publication [Command + N] and then selecting "webpage" as > publication type. This give me some default fields like cite-key, > URL, Lastchecked, Year, Month, Keywords, Local-URL. > But if I want to have a title and an author for the website I need > to add those fields. It would also be nice to get a snapshot from > the current website.
I agree. Web pages often do have authors and titles appropriate for inclusion. The complement of fields shown by default for the "web page" and "electronic" publication types doesn't seem to be what you'd want. > Regarding the author and title fields. Why are they not enabled by > default? Is it possible to store website snapshots? And is this the > way how one would add a website to ones library? I gave this a try just now. Of course, you can print a PDF from the browser and drag that to attach it to a reference in BibDesk. The advantage of that approach is that you can use Skim to view and annotate the file just like a manuscript. However, it also appears that you can save the file as a web archive from Safari, drag that to the reference in BibDesk and it will be stored as usual and open correctly in the browser when you double-click its icon. One of those approaches should serve your needs. Jim Harrison Univ. of Virginia ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
