[OS X TeX] Re: OT: Article dashboard Widget
Andrew Dawes
dawes at phy.duke.edu
Fri Jul 20 20:46:47 CEST 2007
> Something that could be nice too is adding the possibility to reach
> papers or books directly by DOIs. I'm not sure though, whether a
> widget would really be needed for that, since given a DOI this only
> means going to the URL
>
> http://dx.doi.org/DOI
>
> For example
>
> doi:10.1017/S002211200600379X
>
> translates to
>
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S002211200600379X
I would like to add a DOI feature if I can figure out how to deal
with it in a pretty way (from the UI perspective). The only drawback
is that the DOI workflow isn't quite the same as tracking a journal
citation. If someone has a DOI reference (at least in my experience)
it is already on a webpage, in a PDF or some other digital form. In
these cases copy-paste into the browser serves the user just as well
as this widget would (as you suggest above).
The article widget is designed primarily to serve people who are
staring at a physical paper (or perhaps an older image-PDF) and
trying to track down citations. In these cases selecting a journal
and typing a short volume number and page number manually is a
trivial task. Manual entry of a DOI makes my head hurt and is much
slower than going through journal-vol-page, IMHO.
-Andy
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