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

[James Owen]

Very nice idea for a widget. I have downloaded it, and will update it  
when there is a new version. Didn't see Surface Science on it yet  
though.

I also thought of the DOI lookup, but as you say, in most papers the  
refs don't have a DOI.
No reason not to add it as an option though, as often I find abstract  
services have the DOI as a text link,  not as a URL.
So I have to paste the DOI into an address field, add the dx.doi.org  
bit and then search.

Probably that would be better as a contextual menu item or a Service  
in some other program though.

How about if the user does not have a subscription to that particular  
journal? What happens then?

James

On 20 Jul 2007, at 20:46, Andrew Dawes wrote:

>> Something that could be nice too is adding the possibility to  
>> reach papers or books directly by DOIs. I'm not sure though,  
>> whether a widget would really be needed for that, since given a  
>> DOI this only means going to the URL
>>
>> http://dx.doi.org/DOI
>>
>> For example
>>
>> doi:10.1017/S002211200600379X
>>
>> translates to
>>
>> http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002211200600379X
>
> I would like to add a DOI feature if I can figure out how to deal  
> with it in a pretty way (from the UI perspective). The only  
> drawback is that the DOI workflow isn't quite the same as tracking  
> a journal citation. If someone has a DOI reference (at least in my  
> experience) it is already on a webpage, in a PDF or some other  
> digital form. In these cases copy-paste into the browser serves the  
> user just as well as this widget would (as you suggest above).
>
> The article widget is designed primarily to serve people who are  
> staring at a physical paper (or perhaps an older image-PDF) and  
> trying to track down citations. In these cases selecting a journal  
> and typing a short volume number and page number manually is a  
> trivial task. Manual entry of a DOI makes my head hurt and is much  
> slower than going through journal-vol-page, IMHO.
>
> -Andy
>
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