I've updated my book AppleScripts to version 0.4.3 to fix the problems with 1.3.13 and problems with WorldCat. These scripts search WorldCat, Amazon, and the Library of Congress, offering a quick way of fixing existing book cites or adding new ones. All are available at
http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Projects/Citation/BibDesk/ There are three locator scripts (WorldCat, ECampus, and Amazon), a script to add WorldCat URLs, and three scripts to quickly fix and/or add books to your library. The README for the latter is below. -AHM -- --BookScripts --Version 0.4.3 2008-01-13 Fixes for 1.3.13, see individual scripts for changes --Version 0.4.2 2007-05-21 Fixes for incollection, keeping searched ISBNs, title to booktitle --Version 0.4.1 2007-05-07 Fixed WorldCat, Reduced number of hard- coded results to 3 from 10 --Version 0.4.0 2007-03-26 Added WorldCat, SearchOrder, ISBN13 to ISBN10 conversion --Version 0.3.1 2007-02-07 Fix for Add to ISBN script --Version 0.3.0 2007-01-15 First public release --Comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] This script suite contains three scripts for pulling down book information from the Library of Congress, WorldCat, or Amazon to BibDesk. WARNING: Use at your own risk. Always make a backup copy of your data before using these scripts. Installation: 1)Place all files in the "Put in ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/ Scripts" folder in ~/Library/Application Support/BibDesk/Scripts/ 2)Place all files in the "Put in ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions" folder in ~/Library/ScriptingAdditions Book Add by ISBN.scpt --Gets the WorldCat/Library of Congress/Amazon (checks in order SearchOrder) entry from your ISBN and adds the book to the front window's database Book Add from Amazon.scpt --Gets the Amazon entry from your search, gives you a list of books, then adds the selected book(s) to the front window's database Book Cite Fixer.scpt --To try to fix the cites of the selected books, run the "Book Cite Fixer" script on your books that have fields filled in. Entry types other than "book," "inbook," or "incollection" are presently ignored. If multiple entries are found, it will give you a list of the entries (up to 3 currently, settable by property maxResults); after selecting an entry, it will give you a list of fields to fill in. Note that you can use this as a way of searching WorldCat/Library of Congress/ Amazon; open a new entry, fill in a couple of fields (don't forget to tab out!), then run the script to fill the rest of the fields. It checks in order SearchOrder. --To match better, it only looks in five fields. If an ISBN is found, it searches on the first 10 or 13 characters of the ISBN (checks for 13 first); otherwise, it uses title, editor, author, and year. Titles are restricted to the first part (before a : or ;), it uses the last name of the first author, and tries to get the first name of the editor if it exists (everything before the first comma). Book Locator Amazon.scpt --Dependency on BookLib removed in 0.4.0, available as a separate download. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
