I was wondering if the members of the community would kindly share their wisdom in what is the best way to get BibTeX entries from ISBN number? I am currently using this service but results leave much to be desired for. Before I start writing a script which will fix all "imperfection" of the above service is there a better way to get BibTeX references from ISBN? In particular I am interested in web-sites which scale well because I would just like to get BibTeX reference of the web with the script and be done with it.
asked Jun 2 '12 at 0:43
Did you try Lead2Amazon?
Select BibTeX, enter your ISBN, and click on "set and search" -- done.
Sometimes you need to try other Amazon sites, e.g. when searching books of Herbert Voss ...
answered Jun 5 '12 at 22:09
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Lead2Amazon seems to have the most BibTeX fields. Many other sites don't include
totalpages,edition, etc. – Fuhrmanator Feb 4 '16 at 16:09 -
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Search for ISBN and export to BibTeX
- Ottobib: http://www.ottobib.com/
- similar to Ottobib: http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/
Search in all fields and export to BibTeX
- needs many mouse clicks until you can export: http://www.citeulike.org/
Famous but needs repair
- lead.to/amazon select
Amazon.co.jpand Bibtex. This combination still works today.
All databases have many mistakes in the fields and you will have to double check always. But don't worry the major science journals provide bad BibTeX data too.
answered Nov 19 '12 at 0:11
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Did you bother to check which tool I was talking about in my original post? I didn't want to give the name but if you were following the link you would see that manas.tungare was the tool I was not 100% happy with. I tested Ottobib after Mico's comment. – Predrag Punosevac Nov 19 '12 at 0:16
I wrote a script a few years ago that will take in ISBN numbers and emit BibTeX entries. See https://gist.github.com/DavidGriffith/5097431. It's very handy when you're faced with a bunch of books and you have a barcode scanner of some sort.
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http://www.ottobib.com/)? – Mico Jun 2 '12 at 1:46