html management and generation packages- do they offer "bibtex" generation? :)

[Schneider, Thomas (NIH/NCI) [E]]

Mike:

> I was just digging through more html from a somewhat scholarly webpage ( popular audience
> but using scientific literature ) that would be nice to cite in a bunch of publication
> types I could imagine. It looked like from the comments their pages were generated
> by some package ( the name escapes me now but probably these are easy to find or
> well known among web people ). Any hope of getting them to make a bibtex button
> as easy as a bunch of share buttons? I'm still trying to scrape up bibtex from 
> these sites and they would probably be happy if it was easier to credit them.

It will depend entirely on the site.

I use two methods:

1.  https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms/yvp.html

yvp is a script that takes the year, volume and page of a paper and
finds it in PubMed.  Obviously it only works for biomedical papers,
but it can work well.  yvpg GUESSES what is the year, volume and page
in the cut/paste buffer and then calls yvp.  One can use these to go
from a reference at the end of a paper to the PubMed page in a few
seconds.  Given the PubMedID, my mq script makes the bibtex entry.

2.  Google: Just grab everything of the reference; this can give
the PubMed.

> Also whatever happened to the "webmaster" mail address? Too much spam? LOL.

Probably spam ... they will almost always have a way to contact them,
usually a "webmail" which forces one to keep one's own record unless
they allow you to send a copy to yourself.

Tom

  Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
  Senior Investigator
  National Institutes of Health
  National Cancer Institute
  Center for Cancer Research
  RNA Biology Laboratory
  Biological Information Theory Group
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  schneidt at mail.nih.gov
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