Suppress quotes or other markup in \citetitle

Question

I'd like to extract the title from a bibtex file and use it in the main document text. I'm using \citetitle, but this adds the title plus whatever markup is defined for the bibliography style I'm using. How do I get the article title as-is, without anything attached?

My minimal working example:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[style=authoryear-comp]{biblatex}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{refs_local.bib}
@Article{fubar,
  author =       {J. Doe},
  title =        {A fabulous finding},
  journal =  {Journal of Improbable Results},
  year =         2010,
  volume =   42,
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{refs_local.bib}
\begin{document}%
Test: {\bfseries \sffamily \citetitle*{fubar}}\\
\rule{\textwidth}{0.4mm}
\printbibliography
\end{document}

The generated document (cropped):

The desired document would not affect layout of the References, but would show the text A fabulous finding in the main document without any quotes.

Do I need to define my own citation command to get this effect, or is there a more low-level way to extract information directly from bibtex fields?

Answer 1

The formatting of \citetitle is done by the field formatting citetitle. You can change it in the following way:

\DeclareFieldFormat*{citetitle}{#1}

The star version is used to redefine citetitle for all entry types.

Answer 2

It's actually a way easier, just use \citefield

\citefield{my-referenc}{title}