#694 Add ADS to External Library

[Keith Bannister]

HI,

It would be great if you could add ADS (http://www.adsabs.harvard.edu/) to the list of sites you support with the External Web.

It would be particularly useful if it could:
1. Fill in the abstract, and
2. Download the PDF

So you could read it all when you're on the plane.

Cheers, and great app.

Thanks,

Keith

[Rui Pereira]

ADS in the external library would be nice indeed, but for the moment you can try using the ADS-to-BibDesk AppleScript http://homepage.mac.com/jonathansick/notes/adstobibdesk.html, it does essentially what you want, via ADS or arXiv.

Cheers,
Rui

[Adam Maxwell]

Is the ADS z39.50 searching broken? You used to be able to add a z39.50 search group for it, although there were rumors that ADS might kill that service.

http://bibdesk.sourceforge.net/manual/BibDesk%20Help_39.html

[Gary Ferland]

adsbibdesk is now ads2bibdesk and is at
https://github.com/r-xue/ads2bibdesk

however, there is a bug in the v1.7.5 version of bibdesk that prevents it from working - 1.7.4 is the latest version that works. See the report at
https://github.com/r-xue/ads2bibdesk/issues/11

[Gary Ferland]

The NASA ADS is much more than astronomy and space sciences - it includes nearly all of the physics literature and some chemistry. ADS is a major investment for much of the world's physical sciences. The developers should consider supporting it natively. This would be a valuable contribution to the community.

[Christiaan Hofman]

Unfortunately the ADS pages load the references in a way that we cannot detect with WebKit. This is due to the fact that the content is dynamically loaded by an embedded javascript, rather than loaded as a page from the server. So all we see is the javascript link, and we never get notified about the load of the data.