Rasmus <rasmus.p...@gmail.com> writes: >> [Matt and William's setup] > > I have looked for a good way to keep track of academic papers (pdfs) and > Bibtex for a long time. I'd love to see a worg page on this topic. > > Meanwhile, I have found some sweet Bibtex-search interfaces for > Emacs. These will query a academic search engine and can copy Bibtex > entries directly to a .bib file. I found bibsnarfl[fn:1] being the most > interesting, but a similar code is available for PubMed[fn:2]. > Unfortunately, being limited to certain fields, I am personally not able > to adopt either. It would be great to have an interface to a general > academic search engine (Google Scholar, ugh?). > > Imagine the combination of a Emacs-powered interface to some search > engine, a university network and some magic snip that would download a > pdf, add it to a .bib-file (removing annoying entries and adding a > sensible key), and making a nice, easy-to-browse Org-file. > > One day, maybe... > > –Rasmus > > Footnotes: > > [fn:1] http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/bibsnarf.el > > [fn:2] http://www.bioinformatics.org/texmed/ > > > >
That'd be a glorious way to do research. I can see it happening if a few of these academic database search engines and library websites decide to use some kind of free software infrastructure, or at least a relatively open and consistent API...alas, I don't know if library science is really evolving in that direction yet. -- William Gardella J.D. Candidate Class of 2011, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
