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) > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > GPG Fingerprint: 0CCA 8EE2 2EEB 25E2 AB04 06F7 1BB9 E634 9B87 56EE > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
