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I've been playing with this a bit. The web-based VPN my university provides works in the Bookends browser in the sense that I can navigate to an online pdf in a journal. But then what? I can't work out any way to get the pdf downloaded and attached to a reference. Am I missing something?

I don't know how common it is, but my university, the University of Oslo uses something like this for off-site access. The details: there's a special website, https://vpn2.uio.no/ , where you log in, and then you can access e-journals etc. by pasting the URL of the journal into the webpage, just as ...

Just to chime in on the claim about database maintenance and losing groups. I've used Bookends for years with a lot of references and have had to rebuild the database many times, but only once needed to rebuild without keeping user settings as far as I can remember (it wasn't recently). So having to...

From the user guide: If the author is an institution, place a comma after the last character and Bookends will not attempt to format it when creating a bibliography. Commas elsewhere in the name will be output as entered. For example, you would enter "The American Council on Diet, Health, and F...

Thanks very much for the reply. (I should have also said I knew it wouldn't work with PubMed -- they don't do philosophy/linguistics!) I'm guessing that there isn't anywhere else Bookends could look for DOIs (or you would have built it in to Bookends already). Still, if anyone has any ideas I'd be h...

I have a pdf of a journal article, downloaded from the internet. I also have a DOI, although it's not in the pdf itself. What is the best way to proceed? The 'Autocomplete' option doesn't seem to be much help: Google Scholar doesn't seem to recognise the DOI (10.1111/j.0066-7372.2003.00056.x).

Just to offer a different perspective from Aechallu, although I'm not disagreeing: The Command-Control-y shortcut as proposed would be useful to anyone who needs to enter citations with page numbers, including people (like me) who don't make notes in Bookends, whereas what Aechallu is suggesting is ...

Yes. I think so, at least, because it would be faster and smoother than what is needed now: having to move to the right position in the reference, enter an @-sign, then get out of the reference text to continue typing.

Thanks for posting this information. Both new recommendations seem like good common sense.

I agree with you about issue numbers, by the way: I always include them and have never had any objection from a publisher or journal.

I would also find this useful. Even more useful for the way I work would be to be able to have a smart group of the 20 (say) most recently accessed references.

Good point. It doesn't look like it would be hard to make one by editing the APA 5th edition style -- except that the spec in the pdf is rather vague, and will underdetermine the style you need to write. Oh well...

The delay seems to be a bit on the short side for me too. Typically I can get three letters accepted, but the fourth gets treated as a new attempt.

Making them all hits seems to me to be an excellent way of doing it. I don't think it matters very much whether any of them is/are opened, but opening the first one seems logical enough.

I get the same error, 'Citation not found', with multiple references in the same Mellel citation object. It would be so nice if clicking an object with multiple references in it brought them all up in bookends in list view.

I've also had the suggestion to have any reference created with the "Replicate as book chapter" function be automatically linked to the book it's in.

I think this is a very good idea. Why ask the user to tell the application to remember something it already knows, after all?