From: Maxwell, A. R <ada...@pn...> - 2012-05-17 17:14:39
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On May 17, 2012, at 08:20, Sean Garrett-Roe wrote: > Exactly my issue. My current work around is a set of Folder Actions and perl scripts which massage the WoS plain text `savedrecs.txt' field tagged file and convert it into bibtex. FYI, BibDesk should read that tagged format natively, as Mark notes below. I think that feature was broken for a while, though, due to changes in ISI's header. > On 17 May 2012, at 11:10 AM, M A wrote: >> If I search WoS >> with a web browser and save the full record as a text file and then >> select New Publication from File, and choose the text file, it does >> appear (as "Iso-Source-Abbreviation"). You should see it in search results with the next nightly build, or you can build it yourself right now if you're really anxious. It turns out that this is an additional field that has to be requested when getting search results from the web service. I've used "Iso-Source-Abbreviation" as the field name, since that's what you mentioned. >> I'm sure Sean was thinking of >> the former case. Personally, I think it's better to use the >> abbreviation in the Journal field and the full journal name in a >> Journal-Full field, because I don't know of any journals that want the >> full journal name listed in the references of an article. Instead, >> they always want the ISO abbreviation. (But maybe that's just my >> particular field?) As it is, I always have to manually curate what >> BibDesk does when I search WoS. In general, the philosophy BibDesk follows is to add the most complete data as primary, and others as secondary (mainly for author and journal names). I suspect you could easily write a script hook that would do the field swap for you. The BibTeX way would be to use an abbreviation/macro, and have separate macro values that you can use on a per-document basis. This is tedious to set up for an existing database. -- Adam |