![]() ![]() You might also ask why I keep copies of my references on my computer (or why they have to be linked from my reference management system). The still-not-perfect part is the first, getting the metadata from arXiv in BibTex format - I use CiteULike as proxy (and would be happy to hear about better solutions with JabRef). Putting it together, this provided a convenient approach to get arXiv papers with full metadata included in filename, PDF and BibTex on my computer. I hope those who are able to figure out the details are also responsible enough to not download huge amounts of papers from the arXiv. I won't post it here because you need to disguise wget as "Mozilla 5.0", otherwise the arXiv won't let you download stuff (robot protection). Another one I wrote is able to download automagically entries from the arXiv when the URL is supplied in the url BibTex field. Of course, I also have included the BibTex information in XMP into the PDF files (which is another feature of JabRef that I like a lot), so nothing is lost if I ever switch the reference management system.Īnother lesson learned from this blogpost: writing specific JabRef export filters is very easy. You might ask "why", and I respond: my files are all organised in a way from which I can easily extract metadata using only the tools some operating system provides, so in case I don't have access to my BibTex file, I can still find the desired files using the GNU/Linux command locate. If you already have filenames that contain some metadata, like author names or document titles, you might be very happy with JabRef's RegEx-capable automatic file finder, which can be configured in the menu entry Options->Preferences->External Programs->External file links.Įven if you don't use JabRef, you can use this process as described by exploiting the export-as-BibTex-capabilities of your favourite reference management system. This is only useful if you have files linked from your BibTex file, so you might need to do this first. ![]() ![]() This gives you a shell script which, if executed, renames all files linked from the BibTex document into a standardised format (and moves all into the directory from where you execute the script). Then open your BibTex file (.bib) with JabRef and then select the menu entry File->Export and select in the drop-down-menu Files of Type your newly created export filter renamer (*.sh). Then open JabRef and go to the menu entry Options->Manage custom exports->Add new where you enter (for example) "renamer" as Export name, the full path to your renamer.layout file in the Main layout file field and "sh" as File extension. I wrote a JabRef export filter that takes a BibTex file with file links (so, BibTex fields of the form file= If you manage your (scientific) references, such as journal articles, arXiv papers and textbooks within some reference management system that uses BibTex as storage/export format, and you have local copies of your files, then the following might be of interest: ![]()
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