You might also consider the crossref search. M-x crossref-add-bibtex-entry
It will download a bibtex and pdf (if it knows how to). I doubt you can do year range query, but certainly authors and keywords. It really excels at freeform citations as the query. Doyley, Marvin M. writes: > Hi there, > > I am in the process of writing a broad literature review and was wondering if > there is a way to get org-ref to search Pubmed and automatically pull (pdf, > abstracts, etc) all the papers that satisfy a given search terms (year > range, keyword, authors) ? > > Thanks, > > M -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu