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 _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list Skim-app-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users