A bit quicker perhaps: * Open the URL (you could make a bookmark for it) * Search using the search field on the page * Check one or more results using the checkboxes in front of them * Choose ”in BibTeX” from the Export button near the top of the page * Click the “Download to file” button
The resulting bibtex (opened in a new web group) should parsed by BibDesk resulting in an item to import. Christiaan > On 23 May 2023, at 04:25, David Nicholls via Bibdesk-users > <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > Actually, I've been using the NASA/ADS site for over a decade for importing > into Bibdesk. The interfaces of both have changed over that period, and the > current method I use does allow direct creation of bibtex records and > conversioon of them to Bibdesk records. > > The process i use is as follows: > > . Paste the NASA/ADS URL https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu > <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/> into the Bibdesk Webgroup URL window - this > opens the website > . Search NASA/ADS for author, date etc to get a list of papers > . Select one of the papers, which opens the paper title, abstract and authors > . Click the "Export citation" link which displays the bibtex information (the > default format of many options) > . Click the button to copy the bibtex data to the clipboard > . Select the Library in the Bibdesk left column > . From the OSX menu bar, select Publication > New publication from clipboard > ... this creates the Bibdesk record > . Drag the publication PDF which I have already downloaded into the right > hand Bibdesk window, and save the record. > > It would be simpler if the NASA/ADS link were available as a direct link in > Bibdesk, instead of having to copy and paste the url into the webgroup URL > window. > > DN > > >> On 23 May 2023, at 12:28 am, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com >> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 22 May 2023, at 14:04, David Nicholls via Bibdesk-users >>> <bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> <mailto:bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net>> wrote: >>> >>> I'd like to add the NASA/ADS website to the webgroups list: >>> https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu <https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/> (in the >>> Free Sites list) Is that possible >>> >>> David C Nicholls, PhD FAIP >>> Post-doctoral Research Fellow >>> Research School of Astronomy & Astrophysics >>> Australian National University >> >> This is actually an open feature request (#694). However, I have no idea if >> they have any service to get the (bibtex) citation info. And scraping is >> often hard and easily breaks, and the way they show the information is >> actually incomplete. Moreover I am not sure the way the page loads allows us >> to scrape, as it does not seem to reload the page, so we don’t know when >> citations are displayed. >> >> Christiaan
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