google books bibtex

[Mike Marchywka]

On Mon, Dec 09, 2019 at 08:11:41AM +1300, Alan Litchfield wrote:
>    I do not rely on them, nor many of the database bibtex entries. I have to instruct my students constantly to repair them
>    before using, but the effort is relatively minor with a text editor.
>
So far the entries from crossref look good most of the time but getting away from "articles" is another issue. 
Its amazingly distracting though to read literature
and then debug a bibtex entry or script in the middle of a paragraph finally starting to come together :)
Someone earlier claime Zotero had this fixed although I was curious how these things could be fixed
if the info was missing from the available entries. I'm moving my bash script to c++ and now it
will eventually try to get all available for comparison and maybe manual intervention ( similar to a code merge tool
probably lol ). Non-DOI documents are still interesting but I've found enough patterns in the sites it
is getting easier to scrape if the info is there.  
 
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>    On 9/12/2019, at 05:39, Peter Flynn <[mailto:peter at silmaril.ie]peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:
> 
>    On 07/12/2019 11:26, Mike Marchywka wrote:
> 
>      Has anyone had problems with the google bibtex entries?
> 
>    My experience is that they're entirely machine-generated, so they suffer from a lack of source metadata and inaccuracy in
>    its application.

I can believe that in an old publication there will be problems but there were things like "..." in important
places... IIRC the scholar citations were very minimalist. 



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