Hello:
After trying out several reference management systems, I am planning to
switch over to using JabRef in the near future (I've been using Mendeley
most recently, and have also tried Zotero in the past). I find the
JabRef program extremely powerful and useful, with tons of customizable
features, and am looking forward to using it for the long-term. On my
Android tablet, I plan to use the $2.99 Eratosthenes App to read in my
BibTex database file, which will be stored on Microsoft Onedrive, along
with all my PDFs
I have a few questions re: smoothing this transition (my library
currently includes >4000 PDFs, and I typically can add ~200+ new ones
each month, all of which are included in PubMed)...
Currently, I subscribe to email TOC alerts from a variety of journals,
and to custom searches from NCBI. This approach covers the vast majority
of my new PDF acquisitions. I would like to simplify the process of
adding these new PDFs to my reference management database in as seamless
a way as possible, including all associated meta-data. I noticed that
JabRef has an Import option involving "Mr DLib" to extract metadata, but
on several test runs, I've found this to be lacking in coverage
(articles are not recognized at all, etc). It seems that Mendeley and
ReadCube, for example, have more extensive/accurate extraction
algorithms? Does anyone have pointers to address this issue, or
alternative overall approaches for adding new references? I've thought
about copying the titles from the email TOC alerts into the JabRef
PubMed search dialogue, which would let me grab the metadata, but then
not sure about downloading the actual PDFs ? Is there some RSS-based
method that's preferable? Another work-around I've considered is dumping
all the saved PDFs into ReadCube, letting it do the work, exporting the
library to BibTex, and importing back into JabRef, but once again,
somewhat cumbersome.
Lastly, is there any recommendation for a Microsoft Word citation plugin
of some kind for JabRef? Thanks!!
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