There's also my Book Scripts, which will add books by ISBN from the Library of Congress and WorldCat, or attempt to "fix" book citations using existing data. See the README:
http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Projects/Citation/BibDesk/BookScriptsReadme.txt And the scripts: http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Projects/Citation/BibDesk/BookScripts0.4.4.zip -AHM On 2009-04-28, at 3:19 PM, [email protected] wrote: > If you're doing a lot of books it may be worth getting Bookpedia ($18) > and a CueCat scanner ($12 or so on ebay) -- completely unsolicited > endorsement here - I got both before adding a few hundred books to BD > and it was well worth it - now whenever a new book order comes in I > just > scan the barcodes then export from Bookpedia to BibTeX --> BibDesk. > > Once you have your ISBNs in place, there's an Applescript at > http://dfay.fastmail.fm/bibdesk/Open%20Google%20Book%20URL.scpt which > will automatically add links to Google Books based on the ISBN. > > > >> Hi there, >> >> I'm a complete LaTex and Bibdesk Newbie, therefore perhaps a >> question a >> little stupid: I'd like to add the ISBN identifier to my cited books, >> but although BibTex seems to support that, I'm not able to find a >> field >> in Bibdesk to enter the ISBN identifier... What's the problem? I've >> got >> type "book" set for my reference. > > You can add any field you like to your entries in BibDesk. You can > either do it ad hoc with the little plus sign button in the lower > left corner of an the entry window, or you can have it as default for > an entry type with the Fields setting in the prefecerences. > > Note that it entirely depends on the bibtex style whether the ISBN > number is actually printed in your LaTeX document. Most styles wont > print it by default (and to be honest, I very rarely see printed > bibliographies where the ISBN number is included). > > Simon > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations > Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of > expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry > leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code > vel09scf > and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
