Hi there,
I am thinking of moving from endnote to biblioscape. I used for a while mendeley because i had the possibility to import large number of pdfs papers and mendeley will extract the metadata or i can put the PMID and he will find the corresponding citation.
In endnote its not possible but at least i can do drag and drop the pdf file to its reference.
I noticed that biblioscape has neither of the 2 possibilities. am i wrong?
Its really not fair because i loved everything in biblioscape and i am ready to move to it and recommend it to many of my colleagues.
would u please clarify this issue?
thank you
sincerely
paul
We plan to add PDF meta data
We plan to add PDF meta data extraction support in the next major release. For now, you can add a reference with "Quick Add". Just type first author name, year published, and a couple of words in the title or keywords. Biblioscape will add a reference. If PDF is available online, it will find it.
Ok thanks for your reply. I
Ok thanks for your reply.
I think for now i will use mendeley to get my metadata extracted...
I really advice you to invest on this much-needed feature because on windows based softwares there is only mendeley that is capable of doing that, but it lack the very nice features you've integrated in your software.
I will check in couple of months
Good luck
Paul
I disagree. I download PDFs
I disagree. I download PDFs all the time, for many years. Usually, it is also possible to download a citation that needs manual correcting. In all this time I never once was able to extract reliable metadata from a PDF. So, this feature is not at all important for me because in my experience useful metadata is never really there.
Paul (not Chen), if you can describe a step-by-step scenario where you use this feature in practice, maybe I would learn something useful? Cheers.
Hello Anna, This is the
Hello Anna,
This is the scenario im all the time facing. I am constantly working on new projects, i search on pubmed and grab pdf files from sciendirect, wiley or springer ... sometimes i have time to do pubmed search inside endnote but most of the time i am ending up with tones of pdf files papers that its unimaginably hard to organize.
I have been searching for a software that can extract the metadata (doi, or pmid) from the pdf and do his search (in the background) and then download and link the corresponding citation. 2 or so years ago i found mendely (just google it). it is very powerful in extracting metadatas. i will import into it all my "orphan" pdfs and he will do the rest... i would say he is successful in doing that about 70-85% and more successful with recent published papers since it has an embedded doi. But mendeley is very limited when it comes to organizing and creating groups and sub-groups and categories... so now im combining endnote
(so powerful in searching pubmed and organization) with mendeley (so powerful in extracting metadatas). After getting the related citations, I export the citations from mendeley as RIS and import it to endnote. Endnote will even keep the links to the pdf files!
I heard that paper from mekentosj is an almost perfect software, but too bad its strictly mac platform. It has even an iphone app!...
Anyway this is in a nutshell what i am facing. Hope its clearer what i was talking about.
Cheers
Paul