From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Gardella Subject: Re: zotero (or mendeley) integration with org Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:42:11 -0400 Message-ID: <87d3lacfvw.fsf@lw-wireless-pittnet-40-144.wireless.pitt.edu> References: <26045.1301154464@rgc.damtp.cam.ac.uk> <87aageppnf.fsf@fastmail.fm> <87ipv2cryn.fsf@lw-wireless-pittnet-40-144.wireless.pitt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35590 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4XJ4-0000yT-Kb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:41:55 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4XJ3-0003iV-Gd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:41:54 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:60935) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4XJ3-0003iR-5U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 07:41:53 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4XJ1-0003a8-EV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:41:51 +0200 Received: from c-24-3-20-47.hsd1.pa.comcast.net ([24.3.20.47]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:41:51 +0200 Received: from gardellawg by c-24-3-20-47.hsd1.pa.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 13:41:51 +0200 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Rasmus 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