[OS X TeX] Re: OT: Article dashboard Widget

[Themis Matsoukas]

I think this would be immensely more useful if it were possible for  
the user to add journals at will.

Themis


On Jul 19, 2007, at 10:39 PM, Andrew Dawes wrote:

> Fellow Mac & TeX users, I just wanted to follow this thread up with  
> an announcement that more journals have been added to the article  
> widget in case anyone has found it useful... hopefully it will only  
> become more useful.
>
> Journals are being added daily so check for updates if you don't  
> see the ones you need (or let me know, and I'll try to add them).
>
> The download link is still:
>
> http://www.phy.duke.edu/~dawes/computing/articlewidget.php
>
> I have thought about making it into a service but I'll take it one  
> step at a time. I would also love to integrate bibtex/bibdesk  
> support but I think there are already a lot of good applescripts  
> for pulling bibtex from journal websites, in addition to bibdesk's  
> built-in support for WoS and web browsing in general. For now I  
> just wanted to speed up the citation-to-webpage lookup time.
>
> Happy TeX-ing
>
> -Andy
>
>> > Came across this and thought people here might find it useful:
>> >
>> > http://www.phy.duke.edu/~dawes/computing/articlewidget.php
>> >
>> >> . . . Article, a dashboard widget . . . for quickly accessing
>> >> articles by volume and page number. . . . use it for quickly
>> >> following citations when . . . reading an article. An example
>> >> workflow would be to use this widget to locate the journal webpage
>> >> for the article and then from there import the citation to
>> >> Connotea, CiteULike or BibDesk. . .
>> >>
>> > Struck me as ingenious, though I wonder if it wouldn't work better
>> > as a Service (does BibDesk support a similar Service?)
>>
>> Looks neat (if you use the particular journals it supports).  That
>> would be more useful coupled with something like Skim.
>>
>> In answer to your question: BibDesk doesn't do this directly,  
>> although
>> you can add recognized text formats via Services.  However, the
>> current nightly builds of BibDesk allow you to search and import from
>> Web of Science directly, which I'm guessing a few people will find
>> useful.
>>
>> -- adam
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