Hi,

I wrote a while ago about getting z39.50 support working with NASA  
ADS, and you guys were great. Unfortunately, I found out from ADS  
that they are not planning to support z39.50, and may remove it.

However, the new web search feature has tempted me, as I see more  
potential there. ADS is able to return standard bibtex entries as  
search results. So I got it working such that I could search, get a  
results page (all in BibTeX, which I ignored) in the first pane, and  
then the results ready to import in the second and third pane. But  
now that doesn't seem to work. I'm guessing that the first two lines  
of the results (which aren't valid bibtex) are confusing the parser,  
but I'm not sure.

Seems it would be easy to get ADS working similarly to Google  
Scholar, or similar. Also, it might be better/easier to use the ADS  
Tagged Format instead of BibTeX, since it includes the abstracts. I  
can send more details if that helps.

On a related note, it would be nice, now that the web kit is  
installed, to be able to visit a linked web page from within BibDesk,  
and even nicer, if clicking on a pdf (or maybe even other types) link  
on that web page would automatically download and link the file to  
the BibDesk entry. (Someone showed me this feature in Pages today,  
and I was very impressed.)

Cheers,
Andy

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