You could try using AppleScript. Move through the (selected) publications, and when the field is empty import it from pubmed and update the publication. Some changes in the nightly builds could make updating an item from an import even easier.
Christiaan Op ma 24 feb. 2020 20:03 schreef Craggs, Jason G. < crag...@health.missouri.edu: > Tom, > > Thank you. > I did indeed post this to the wrong group. I intended to post the question > to the BibDesk forum and hadn’t considered, nor know about, texhax. I will > check that group later today. > Thanks also for the links. They might just do the trick. > > Cheers, > Jason > --------------------------------- > Jason G Craggs, Ph.D. > Assistant Professor > SHP/Physical Therapy > University of Missouri > 801 Clark Hall > Columbia, MO 65211-4250 > > Phone: 573-884-9345 > http://tinyurl.com/MU-PT-Jason-Craggs > https://healthprofessions.missouri.edu/brainstormlab/ > https://www.facebook.com/muptbrainstorm/ > > > On Feb 21, 2020, at 12:19 PM, Thomas Schneider <schne...@mail.nih.gov> > wrote: > > > > Jason: > > > >> For a lot of the manuscript and grant applications I have to include > >> the pmid and PMC numbers that pubmed provides. I've added the Pmc > >> filed as a default for all references. This works just fine for new > >> references, but is blank in my previous references. I really don't > >> want to go through the processes of re-importing, dealing with > >> duplicates etc. because that would take a long time. How can I > >> simply update my references? > > > > Since this is not related to Skim display, this discussion would be > > better held on the texhax news group (tex...@tug.org > > https://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/texhax) so I am ccing there and > > suggest that after this we remove the Skim references. > > > > I have a tcsh script (!) that calls a Pascal (!) program: > > > > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/ftp/medquery > > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/delila/medlinebib.html > > > > Given a PubMed Id (pmid) together they grab the reference format and > > create a Bibtex entry. Then they look in my bibliography file to see > > if the same key has been used before (first author, last author, year > > which is nearly unique in PubMed). If so, they are compared using > > sdiff. If the new entry has a doi, that is provided in a file. I > > then edit my bibliography file BY HAND to upgrade the reference. I do > > it by hand to avoid disasters of programs doing unexpected things. > > > > Tom > > > > Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. > > Senior Investigator > > National Institutes of Health > > National Cancer Institute > > Center for Cancer Research > > RNA Biology Laboratory > > Biological Information Theory Group > > Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > > schne...@mail.nih.gov > > https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bibdesk-users mailing list > Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users >
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