Tom, Thank you. I did indeed post this to the wrong group. I intended to post the question to the BibDesk forum and hadn’t considered, nor know about, texhax. I will check that group later today. Thanks also for the links. They might just do the trick.
Cheers, Jason --------------------------------- Jason G Craggs, Ph.D. Assistant Professor SHP/Physical Therapy University of Missouri 801 Clark Hall Columbia, MO 65211-4250 Phone: 573-884-9345 http://tinyurl.com/MU-PT-Jason-Craggs https://healthprofessions.missouri.edu/brainstormlab/ https://www.facebook.com/muptbrainstorm/ > On Feb 21, 2020, at 12:19 PM, Thomas Schneider <[email protected]> wrote: > > Jason: > >> For a lot of the manuscript and grant applications I have to include >> the pmid and PMC numbers that pubmed provides. I've added the Pmc >> filed as a default for all references. This works just fine for new >> references, but is blank in my previous references. I really don't >> want to go through the processes of re-importing, dealing with >> duplicates etc. because that would take a long time. How can I >> simply update my references? > > Since this is not related to Skim display, this discussion would be > better held on the texhax news group ([email protected] > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax) so I am ccing there and > suggest that after this we remove the Skim references. > > I have a tcsh script (!) that calls a Pascal (!) program: > > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/medquery > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/delila/medlinebib.html > > Given a PubMed Id (pmid) together they grab the reference format and > create a Bibtex entry. Then they look in my bibliography file to see > if the same key has been used before (first author, last author, year > which is nearly unique in PubMed). If so, they are compared using > sdiff. If the new entry has a doi, that is provided in a file. I > then edit my bibliography file BY HAND to upgrade the reference. I do > it by hand to avoid disasters of programs doing unexpected things. > > Tom > > Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. > Senior Investigator > National Institutes of Health > National Cancer Institute > Center for Cancer Research > RNA Biology Laboratory > Biological Information Theory Group > Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > [email protected] > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
