Dear Nick, Had no chance to answer earlier. I doubt that would be easy. I would rather reimport well defined records for those articles and possibly copy only the cite key to the new record and then using an update applescript to delete all the obsolete records.
To do this automatically in a batch process sounds like a rather complicated problem AFAIK. For isntance there a several articles with exactly the same title, often even the same or similar authors! Thus it is not easy to well identify publications unless there would be a well defined key, which is rarely the case. Thus I fear you end up with manual work. But perhaps someone else has a good idea on how to accomplish this. Perhaps it may help to check out that website: http://people.oregonstate.edu/~shellk/cdefg/tools.html Karen Shell's scripts are the only ones I am aware of, that try to accomplish something similar to what you seem to have in mind. However, in her case the matching of what is already downloaded and complemented are obviously well defined. Regards, Andreas ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology CHN E 21.1 Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.sysecol.ethz.ch<http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch> +41 44 633-6090 phone +41 44 633-1136 fax +41 79 221-4657 mobile Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ On 22/May/2010, at 16:24 , Nick Illich wrote: Thanks Andreas. Would I be able to use this way for entries I already added to BibDesk? I have many entries I put in already but they have incomplete citation information (most only contain the title/author but I would like to automatically add the journal or volume, etc.). I'm wondering if there is a way to easily batch update those entries I already added to BibDesk with citation information automatically found from the internet (such as Google Scholar or Google Books). Thanks! Nick On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 9:10 PM, Fischlin Andreas <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: It is not very clear to me what your problem is, since BibDesk supports by default fully the use of google scholar. All is just a few clicks away. However, you have to make sure Google scholar knows about your ability to access its information via BibDesk. Guick instructions: In BibDesk 1) select "Web" under "EXTERNAL" (left side bar) 2) Click on "Google Scholar" 3) Click on link Scholar Preferences (to the right of search field) 4) Go down to "Bibliography Manager" and there 5) activate option "Show links to import citations into" and from the pop-up menu select option "BibTeX" 6) Click on button "Save Preferences" Once done you should be able to simply use the import button to import Google scholar data into BibDesk. If you have another problem, you need to explain better what the difficulties really are you encounter. Regards, Andreas ETH Zurich Prof. Dr. Andreas Fischlin Systems Ecology - Institute of Integrative Biology CHN E 21.1 Universitaetstrasse 16 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> www.sysecol.ethz.ch<http://www.sysecol.ethz.ch/> +41 44 633-6090 phone +41 44 633-1136 fax +41 79 221-4657 mobile Make it as simple as possible, but distrust it! ________________________________________________________________________ On 22/May/2010, at 12:33 , Nick Illich wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering if there is a script or another way to select a publication > with a title/author and have it search google scholar or google books to fill > in additional citation information. > > I found the script 'Book Cite Fixer' and it could work for my books, but I > haven't been able to get it to work so far. Whenever I try to load it for a > publication it gives me an error that says "The script 'Book Cite Fixer' > could not complete. AppleScript reported the following error: Can't get text > 1 thru 4 of "". " > > Does anyone have any idea how I could fix this? Are there any other options I > could look into in order to search to add additional citation information for > publications I already added? I'm not very good with AppleScript and I'm not > sure if there is an easy way to achieve this. > > Thanks in advance! > Nick > <ATT00001..txt><ATT00002..txt> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users <ATT00001..txt><ATT00002..txt> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
