Re: zotero (or mendeley) integration with org

[William Gardella <gardellawg@gmail.com>]

Rasmus <rasmus.pank@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/
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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