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somewhat · 04-22-2020, 06:39 AM

Hi,

I have some articles from journals that I'd like to keep in Calibre. These documents have detailed metadata associated with them for citation purposes but it doesn't seem like it is getting through to Calibre.

Files obtained from PubMed seem to have Title and usually Author done properly but not the published date, publisher, series, abstract/description. The files from JSTOR portal typically have zero meta data.

Unsurprisingly, downloading metadata from the amazon etc sources that are available does not work since these are not books.

Scholarly articles often have a DOI associated with them which allows finding of metadata for example in crossref.

So I'm looking for:

A metadata source that would be able to grab the details from a database somewhere, or
A reasonably streamlined way to import individual citation files

example

In case anyone is interested in taking a crack at this but isn't familiar with the systems:

Here is a pubmed search for articles whose full text is freely available online that contain to word "cats".

One finding: Identification of separation-related problems in domestic cats: A questionnaire survey links to the fulltext on PLOS ONE where citation is available in different formats.

JSTOR is a walled garden you must have access to usually via an institution. I get it thru the public library. But I can't link to anything usefully. However it provides the following formats to save the citation (aka metadata): "NoodleTools, RefWorks, EasyBib, RIS file (For EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, Zotero, Mendeley…), (For BibTex)"

Citation manager software

I know that there are integratino plugins for Zotero and Mendeley. Zotero for example has the facility to pull metadata for articles. But I'm not actually an academic and I've never managed to work out citation managers as they always seem to be overkill for my needs. The documentation for the plugins that I found assume you already know how to use the citation manager and have it going. I don't know if it's the only way to patch the meta data through. I am hoping there is a more direct way. Because I don't actually need to manage citations.

any thoughts on this or related strategies to amange these kinds of documents are appreciated.

04-22-2020, 06:39 AM	#1
somewhat Junior Member Posts: 4 Karma: 10 Join Date: Apr 2020 Device: none	meta data for scholarly journal articles? Hi, I have some articles from journals that I'd like to keep in Calibre. These documents have detailed metadata associated with them for citation purposes but it doesn't seem like it is getting through to Calibre. Files obtained from PubMed seem to have Title and usually Author done properly but not the published date, publisher, series, abstract/description. The files from JSTOR portal typically have zero meta data. Unsurprisingly, downloading metadata from the amazon etc sources that are available does not work since these are not books. Scholarly articles often have a DOI associated with them which allows finding of metadata for example in crossref. So I'm looking for: A metadata source that would be able to grab the details from a database somewhere, or A reasonably streamlined way to import individual citation files example In case anyone is interested in taking a crack at this but isn't familiar with the systems: Here is a pubmed search for articles whose full text is freely available online that contain to word "cats". One finding: Identification of separation-related problems in domestic cats: A questionnaire survey links to the fulltext on PLOS ONE where citation is available in different formats. JSTOR is a walled garden you must have access to usually via an institution. I get it thru the public library. But I can't link to anything usefully. However it provides the following formats to save the citation (aka metadata): "NoodleTools, RefWorks, EasyBib, RIS file (For EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, Zotero, Mendeley…), (For BibTex)" Citation manager software I know that there are integratino plugins for Zotero and Mendeley. Zotero for example has the facility to pull metadata for articles. But I'm not actually an academic and I've never managed to work out citation managers as they always seem to be overkill for my needs. The documentation for the plugins that I found assume you already know how to use the citation manager and have it going. I don't know if it's the only way to patch the meta data through. I am hoping there is a more direct way. Because I don't actually need to manage citations. any thoughts on this or related strategies to amange these kinds of documents are appreciated.