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#17 Allow Search to Access Publication Venu
I'm not sure I fully understand the search component, so this may already be possible. But as near as I can tell there is no way for me to find, say, every Work published in a journal (say, Philosophy & Public Affairs). Or, no way for me to find every Work published by Oxford University Press.
(One workaround is to add this information to the file name, and search for works where the Work File contains the relevant text. This is not perfect since many search terms will overlap - stuff published in the journal Ethics will show up if I want to find things published in the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy. But I think one could even get around that with a complicated search. Thus, ticket 5 would to some degree obviate this ticket. And, for that matter, vice versa, if I can ever entirely get out of the habit of using PDF files to find stuff.)
I agree that Publication Title should be searchable. This issue is also related to ticket 6.
I see in the Bibliographic Data tab that Publication Title is listed. But perhaps it's not being stored in a searchable way yet. Or perhaps users who add works manually, rather than via Zotero, don't have this information filled. In any case, I believe storing the journal title will be useful going forward.
The difficult thing with journal titles is they use a lot of very common words. So to me, the only practical way to include that in searching is if you can search for phrases (by using quotations marks, for example). I will include journal title in the search field in the Bibliography Manager and enable quotation marks and plus and minus for better control (they will work like how they are supposed to work in Google search). Doing something like that in the search field at the bottom of the main window is a little more complicated and will take more investigation. I will also add the ability to search bibliographic fields in the Queries tab; I don't think that is currently possible. Note that, in the Bibliography Manager window, you can also turn on the "Published In" column by clicking the button on the top-right of the list of entries.
If you were also asking for journal titles to be stored as part of Hypernomicon work records themselves, rather than just in associated reference manager entries, please create a separate ticket for that since that is a change to the underlying structure of the database rather than a tweak to the UI. I have tried to follow a design philosophy of only including the minimum essential fields in the database to minimize redundancy with reference managers (less feature bloat and potential for bugs) and have to think about whether having the journal title as a database field is worth the disadvantages. My inclination until now has been just to say that the best practice is to integrate it with a reference manager.
I think that adding the column to my bib manager (thanks for the tip!), being able to search by publication in bib manager, and having bib fields searchable in the Queries tab will pretty much solve this for me. (I can't speak for Danny though.) Thanks.
Just noting here that ticket 5 will be implemented in the next release, along with additional enhancements to Bibliography Manager search field.
Additional ways this ticket has been addressed so far:
Last edit: Jason Winning 2023-06-26