Replicating Zotero-connector functionality in Emacs … without Zotero!
reddit / emacs

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ndpian · 2022-10-13 19:00



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WorldsEndless · 2022-10-14 11:24

This is awesome! Thanks for sharing. Since it is hard coded  to use
arxiv, does that limit you? I ask because it my own research work I
almost never view papers from Arxiv. Mine are wherever Google Scholar
funds them, or academia.edu, or any number of other places.

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ndpian · 2022-10-14 14:10

For me it works perfectly in 99% use cases as most of the papers in
our field is first released through Arxiv. That being said, I would
love to have the functionality of other sources. Currently I use the
org-ref method `arxiv-get-pdf-add-bibtex-entry` to fetch papers from
arxiv.

Zotra.el is a package which allows you to talk to the Zotero
standalone translation server, but this server only returns a
formatted bib, not the pdf. I would be down to replicate a Zotero
translation server in elisp, closely following the org-ref functions,
which also fetches the pdf.

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luiggi_oasis · 2022-10-15 01:39

I use zotero but i partucularly dont use the connector. Is there any
emacs package that do these two things? (1) maintain a bib file with
all my references and show them like zotero, ie sortable tae with
categories and tags, (2) generate a full bib entry from the doi. Those
are the only two features I use zotero for.

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Jack-o-tall-tales · 2022-10-15 20:33

Look into Ebib -- its awesome.

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ndpian · 2022-10-15 22:53

1. You can use Citar which does exactly that.
2. Not that I know of, but the functions that I use in org-ref
generates a bib entry from arxiv link.

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Benthamite · 2022-10-17 18:56

> (2) generate a full bib entry from the doi

[doi-utils](https://github.com/jkitchin/org-ref/blob/master/doi-
utils.el), part of [org-ref](https://github.com/jkitchin/org-
ref/blob/master/doi-utils.el), has functions to add bib entries from
DOIs.

Previously I used Zotero, but recently migrated to a pure Emacs
solution, which relies on [zotra](https://github.com/mpedramfar/zotra)
for the connectors, [ebib](http://joostkremers.github.io/ebib/) for
creating and editing bibliographic entries, and [org-cite](https://www
.reddit.com/r/orgmode/comments/vchefn/guide_to_citations_in_orgmode/)
and [citar](https://github.com/emacs-citar/) for inserting and
formatting citations.

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ndpian · 2022-10-18 02:01

Nice! but how do you get the pdfs though using zotra?