Thanks.  Looks like a dead end to me...

On Dec 8 2015 5:45 AM, bocec...@gmail.com wrote:
> Yes, proquest respond with the following:
>
>
>
>
> “Thank you for contacting ProQuest Support. ProQuest content,
> including the CSA databases, is only accessible via a subscribing
> academic library or public library. If you are a member of a
> subscribing institution, you can export content to CSV, RIS, XLS, 
> PDF,
> RTF, or TXT formats. We do not currently support the CSA format.”
>
>
>
>
> Since they didn’t answer my question regarding the future plans of
> the csa export format on their site I wrote another email and got the
> following reply:
>
>
>
>
> “Thank you for contacting ProQuest Support. There are not any plans
> at this time to support the CSA format.”
>
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Tobias
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Von: e...@users.sourceforge.net
> Gesendet: ‎Dienstag‎, ‎8‎. ‎Dezember‎ ‎2015 ‎13‎:‎26
> An: jabref-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
>
>
>
>
> Out of curiosity, and for the record, did CSA respond to your 
> inquiry?
> If no one is using it there is no reason to support it, but I am 
> curious
> if the new/merged company is supporting their legacy products.
>
>    EBo --
>
> On Dec 8 2015 5:00 AM, bocec...@gmail.com wrote:
>> So far no one has requested to continue suppport for the CSA 
>> importer
>> which means I have created a pull request where I removed the
>> importer. See: https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/pull/485
>>
>>
>> Regards, Tobias
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Von: Tobias Boceck
>> Gesendet: ‎Dienstag‎, ‎1‎. ‎Dezember‎ ‎2015 ‎21‎:‎56
>> An: e...@users.sourceforge.net
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In the introduction of the wikipedia article of “CSA (database
>> company)” it says these companies have indeed merged and therefore
>> you
>> might be right. Maybe they still have to figure out some things. I
>> sent an email asking if there is an export option for the csa format
>> (and I’m just blind..) or if they are planing on adding one in the
>> future.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tobias
>>
>>> On 01 Dec 2015, at 20:55, EBo <e...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Tobias,
>>>
>>> Before pulling support for CSA, contact proquest.com and see if 
>>> they
>>> have any plans to support the export of CSA.  It is possible that
>>> they
>>> bought or somehow took over the Cambridge Science Abstracts and 
>>> they
>>> might not have everything online.  If they get queries/requests for
>>> the
>>> type they might just add/keep the support.  On the other hand, it
>>> would
>>> be nice to know how many people are using it so that you know if it
>>> is
>>> even worth the effort...
>>>
>>>   EBo --
>>>
>>> ps: I do not use CSA, but I have run into similar problems in the
>>> past...
>>>
>>> On Dec 1 2015 12:31 PM, Tobias Boceck wrote:
>>>> Dear Jabref Users,
>>>>
>>>> this is an important information for everyone who is or has been
>>>> using the CSA: Cambridge Science Abstracts or the ASAF: Aquatic
>>>> Sciences and Fisheries format.
>>>>
>>>> While creating unit tests for the CSA (Cambridge Science Abstract)
>>>> importer (CsaImporter.java), I could not find the website for the
>>>> CSA
>>>> format, mentioned in the code comments. It seems that the CSA
>>>> website
>>>> (csa.com) has gone offline and has been transfered to a new site
>>>> called proquest.com. Unfortunetely I could not find any exporting
>>>> option on proquest.com matching the CSA format. Searching for the
>>>> ASAF
>>>> format also refered to the proquest website which also does not
>>>> have
>>>> a
>>>> explicit ASAF export option.
>>>>
>>>> Therefore it seems to me that there is no point in keeping an
>>>> importer for a format which refers to a specific website which is
>>>> not
>>>> available anymore. However if you do use the CSA format and know a
>>>> different source on where to obtain a file with such format, I
>>>> would
>>>> kindly ask you to respond to this email prior to next weeks 
>>>> Tuesday
>>>> the 8th of December 2015. If there is no answer before the 8th of
>>>> December 2015 I will open a pull request to remove the importer.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>> Tobias Boceck
>>>>
>>>>
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