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Biblioscape imports initial of author's first name and not the whole name into database. How do I change to importing full name

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 16:19 — jbunker74

Hi Paul,

I have noticed that Biblioscape only displays the first initial of author, second author, and editors names when it is imported into my database. I do try to change this manually but would like to see how I can change the filter to capture this information in order to make this function automate. I want to have full record of first and last name for each reference. Can you walk me through the steps of how to achieve this?

Thanks

Jim

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Tue, 10/27/2009 - 18:42 — Paul Chen

What is the data source you

What is the data source you were trying to import from? Can you post a sample record in the file you were trying to import?

Tue, 10/27/2009 - 22:39 — jbunker74

Paul, It's hard to pinpoint

Paul,

It's hard to pinpoint this as it does not occur each time I import. For example, it does not occur usually when I import from Ebsco. I just realized that the sources I imported from Google-Scholar citation to be imported from google-scholar shows only the initial in the listing. So, that's a google-scholar display issue separate from biblioscape. This might be something that I have to live with as Biblioscape will not have the ability to pull data from pdfs (which is a workaround) until the next version of Biblioscape. Excellent idea by the way, pulling information directly from pdfs would be very beneficial. When you program that feature I would suggest that you provide an option for automatically attaching that file or creation of a link to that pdf.

Thanks

Jim