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Engauge digitizer log scale6/9/2023 ![]() I just like to know if I’m reading something written by a young Mr. I don’t have (and won’t have) anything personal against any author. These articles are What would Jesus hack? and Worrying about wireless.įirst an aside: it might be an editorial choice but I would prefer to know who wrote an article rather than anonymity. I just finished reading two articles in a recent edition of The Economist and they reminded me how important are these references. I think with their precious help we learnt the art of referencing: choosing good references, citing them at the appropriate location in a text and, of course, giving enough information at the bottom of the text to allow the reader to find these references. When I studied biology as well as when I did my Ph.D., our professors were always after us because of references. The installation takes 30 seconds maximum, download included. If you see it, just choose the “Open preferences” button and follow the very intuitive procedure. (*) On MS-Windows, on the first use, you might see a dialog box warning you that you must first install the “PDF tools”. As hinted in the Zotero support page for this function, please re-check the imported reference in case something went wrong (I imported something like 20 references since yesterday with this function and I didn’t spot any error for the moment).īulk import and metadata retrieval works too: just import several PDFs at the same time and, while all of them are selected in Zotero, right-click on them and choose “Retrieve Metadata for PDF”.Īs mentioned earlier, “i t’s just plain efficiency, without bells and whistles“. ![]() Most major editors are supported ( it seems Zotero doesn’t actually extract metadata from the PDF but finds these metadata by comparing the PDF content with Google Scholar). Now, it works for most papers I tested yesterday and today. everything goes very fast and they are stored as a normal reference, now on the right. Retrieval of the title, the authors, the journal, etc. However, there is one thing that was missing, imho: the capability to import PDFs (individually or in bulk) and correctly fill in the various fields of the reference.īut in fact, this already exists in Zotero! Just drag a PDF in the middle section (the reference list) then right-click on it and choose “Retrieve Metadata from PDF” (*). I wrote earlier that I really liked Zotero, a reference management software.
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