![]() BE has a feature called Autocomplete (similar to the Targeted Browsing feature in Sente) which helps me highlight the Title of the book (article) from the pdf and tell it to search it somewhere in the web engines (google scholar, World Cat, or my local library website). I always go to the pdf and attempt to fill up the reference when I have some extra time latter. I rarely pick the reference from the web page. Having PDFs with incomplete reference or no DOI, however, Zotero is a huge pain. Zotero excels at getting data from browser (internet) and the attach the PDF over the reference. That is why I have to move back these partially filled references to either Bookends or Zotero.Ĭompleting the incomplete references in Zotero is a nightmare, I learned by the hard way. For that, I am now grateful of Mendeley.īut, ultimately I cannot live with Mendeley because it gets data from Google Scholar only–always junk data. Cleaning the junk library was much better than inserting references, one by one, for 3400 item. Most of them get junk reference, of course, as usual. Then, I dragged them to Mendeley, majority of them get their references filled. But, the data it gets was less than 20% success rate. Quite interestingly, Papers was able to pick some of them. Importing them to any of the references gives not a single relevant reference data–both Zotero and Bookends gave me zero result. I recently downloaded more than 3400 pdf files from a linguistic archive. As a result, it is a life saver when you have a lot of junk to clean up. While both Bookends and Zotero can extract some identifiers like DOI and ISBN, they never try to get the Title, the author and the date by directly reading the PDF file. This technology is unique to Mendeley, so far as I can tell. That is, Mendeley tries to get the reference information by reading the PDF file directly. Now, it is time to appreciate one great quality of Mendeley that no other reference manager can emulate: its attempt to do the undo-able. Being an early adopter (staring from its beta stage around 2008), I was left with frustrations with Mendeley. I get the worst, most incomplete reference from Mendeley. For one good reason: the data is always extracted from Google Scholar. If you are having this issue, some futher investigation may be needed (eg the config file may not have suitable permissions set).I have been very dismissive of Mendeley for many years now. It has been suggested that you may need to run both LyX and JabRef as administrator to get them to work, I didn't find this but its not impossible. You do not have to restart JabRef, just Just select some rows and click send to LyX and they will appear at the Cursor Set on JabRef Options, Preferences, Settings for LyX/Kyle, LyX Pipe: \\.\pipe\FOO (no.Set on LyX under Tools, Preference, External Tools" LyX Pipe: \\.\pipe\FOO.It is a special windows "Named Pipe".Ī named pipe must have the name \\.\pipe\FOO where FOO can be anything, but the first part: \\.\pipe\ must always be there. and Windows 10 tech preview, Lyx 2.1.3, and JabRef 2.10 Some people suggested it just didn't work on windows. I've been having this problem for years, so I sat down to finally figure it out.
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