drag and drop import method fails due to wrong DOI
Posted: Wed Jul 05, 2017 4:24 am
Hi,
First, I ought to make it clear that I am new to Bookends and I am migrating from Sente. Consequently my knowledge of Bookends is still embryonic and I might see things through the lens of Sente.
I have been experimenting with importing PDFs and thus creating new references. This has so far worked well except for one problem reference, which creates a problem I also encountered some time ago with Sente.
The reference is a Science (ie the AAAS journal) article downloaded from a University server, so nothing weird or obscure. If I drag and drop this PDF onto Bookends it opens the import dialogue with an automatically identified DOI, but this DOI is not that of the paper, but of another paper published in Nature. The real DOI for the Science article is where it should be - on the front page of the PDF. I guess the Nature DOI must be somewhere in the paper, but I cannot see it. It seems I cannot edit the DOI reported by Bookends, and Bookends, if told to proceed with import, will import the PDF, but attach data from the Nature paper to the reference. Is there a way I can either edit the DOI in the import pop-up window, or force Bookends to use the more interactive import method where I must enter text, DOI etc manually and then locate the PDF data via Google Scholar, for example?
thanks and all the best,
JeremyH
First, I ought to make it clear that I am new to Bookends and I am migrating from Sente. Consequently my knowledge of Bookends is still embryonic and I might see things through the lens of Sente.
I have been experimenting with importing PDFs and thus creating new references. This has so far worked well except for one problem reference, which creates a problem I also encountered some time ago with Sente.
The reference is a Science (ie the AAAS journal) article downloaded from a University server, so nothing weird or obscure. If I drag and drop this PDF onto Bookends it opens the import dialogue with an automatically identified DOI, but this DOI is not that of the paper, but of another paper published in Nature. The real DOI for the Science article is where it should be - on the front page of the PDF. I guess the Nature DOI must be somewhere in the paper, but I cannot see it. It seems I cannot edit the DOI reported by Bookends, and Bookends, if told to proceed with import, will import the PDF, but attach data from the Nature paper to the reference. Is there a way I can either edit the DOI in the import pop-up window, or force Bookends to use the more interactive import method where I must enter text, DOI etc manually and then locate the PDF data via Google Scholar, for example?
thanks and all the best,
JeremyH