On 11 Jul 2007, at 11:09 PM, Rajarshi Guha wrote:

>
> On Jul 11, 2007, at 4:55 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>> I just checked in support for searching Web of Science in BibDesk,
>> so you can try it now if you compile from subversion, or wait for
>> the next nightly/daily build.  Thanks to James Howison and Rajarshi
>> Guha for doing the preliminary work on this.
>
> Thanks - I'll check it out
>
>>   Also, it only searches by topic right now, since I don't have
>> time to add UI for anything else.  Suggestions welcome.
>
> Going by the current way I can search PubMed by specifying a query
> string, wouldn't is be possible simply to take the WoS query string
> and send it to the web service?
>
> That is, in the text entry box, one could write:
>
> TS=(QSAR) AND AU=(Stanton)
>
> and the above string would simply be passed in as the query field. So
> you're not restricted to just search on topic (TS) but can include
> title (TI), author (AU), publication year (PY) etc.
>
> Obviously a UI for individual fields is nice, but if you're familiar
> with WoS you can simply type in the query as you would in the WoS web
> page interface (faster for expert use)
>
> (I just tried it with the Python client and it seems to work fine)
>
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> Rajarshi Guha  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Heisenberg may have been here.

I have made some small change to this: it only forces TS when the  
search term does not contain a "=", so that you can either enter a  
raw query string or a just a topic.

Christiaan


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