On 9 May 2008, at 12:14 AM, Robin wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 7:41 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Hi There, >> I am sorry to bother you, but I found myself rather lost when using >> Bibdesk. >> I truly love it, and I am physicist/chemist using BibTeX for quite >> some >> time, but I am fairly new to mac and to Bibdesk. I would like to >> ask, if you >> can somehow search Web of science. Or, if you can't, how you at >> least import >> stuff you already found? What is (or should be) the typical workflow? >> >> In my case, it's so: I find my papers, using safari/camino browser, >> download >> them to a folder, give them some stupid name, which doesn't follow >> well-thought pattern, then close browser and open them in Preview >> and copy >> and paste author,title and other fields to Bibdesk, where I end up >> filing >> new local url for corresponding pdf file. It's rather slow and >> frankly >> annoying. >> >> I bet it can do better. Can you please kick me in the right >> direction? >> >> Yours, >> Jirka C. > > I just thought I'd add, since I haven't seen it mentioned yet, that > Google Scholar has an option to display BibTex for results. Go to > Scholar Preferences and select "Show links to import citations in > Bibtex". > > So my workflow is usually to search the title and or author: field in > google scholar (where I often find the paper anyway), click on the > appropriate citation, copy it and paste it into Bibdesk (although I > will check out the Services menu after the tip in this thread). > > The entries from Google can be of mixed quality - but it's certainly > enough for maintaining your own archive. I've found some > inconsistencies in journal abbreviations, author names etc. that need > to be cleaned up before publication (ie proof read the typeset > bibliography carefully) but overall I find it a major time saver. > > After downloading I add the file (easy to find whatever name the > archive gives it since it's most the most recently downloaded) to the > new entry in bibdesk and let it autofile. > > Most of the papers I read aren't in pubmed and I find login's/proxies > for web of science and other university paid for services more > inconvenient so I find this the easiest way. > > Cheers > > Robin
Be aware that support for Google Scholar is already build right into BibDesk. If you search Google Scholar in the web group, importing a match is just a single click away. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
