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Paul,

I have two questions here.
The first question is about importing references into the Bib. 8 which is similar to what I previously asked. I am sorry to address this similar question again.

1, Duplicate checking fields
I am really hoping that the bib 8 will let users choose checking fields. This will be very useful for users who get references from journal's in press articles, preprints of arxiv or journal websites. That means these recent references are usually not in the database of Web of science yet. Some time later, the articles are formally published, and they appear in the Web of Science. If we importing the these references from web of science, Bib 8 will not find duplicate. However, we do not really want to import them again. If we can choose checking fields, we can find duplicate by using field such as 'title'.

Is it possible that we can choose the checking fields in the panel of importing option?

2, Problem of importing with 'overwrite the old version' option.

In this case, I find that all the setting for the old references are lost. For example, the information of 'priority', 'category', 'RichText', and so on. Usually, we want to keep the above useful information, and only want to update partial information.

The better way is to only update the fields that the importing references have some content.

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Suppose that the above two functions are realized. Biblioscape 8 will provide the best way to successfully handle the references from journal's current issue, preprints form arxiv and journal's in press. They are usually not included in the Web of science and Scopus yet. Some time later we find they appear in the Web of Science. Then we can use overwrite option to update the old references if we can choose check fields.

Thanks.