JabRef and Google Scholar
2009 November 14
I can’t seem to find any way to import the bib entries provided by google scholar to JabRef directly. You can enable the Import into BibTex link from the preferences but it streams the bib file as text/plain which opens up in the browser. You can save it and import it but that wastes a lot of clicks. The easiest option is to copy-paste all the text into a new JabRef entry (Ctrl+N). The default settings leave the double curly braces in the title (to preserve case) which can be removed by enabling the Remove double braces… checkbox in the File tab of Options/Preferences. This works for JabRef 2.5.
Create new bibitem in JabRef. Click ‘import to BibTex’ in Google Scholar. Paste into JabRef template.
Yes, as I mentioned, you can copy-paste the text but it’s not quite feasible if you have to do it repeatedly. I was looking for a better ‘automated’ solution. Thankfully, Qiqqa offers a much better mechanism (http://www.qiqqa.com/) .
There is a quite easy solution to import the google Scholar bibtex (and probably any bibtex reference from other database):
Just click on : Bibtex export in google scholar
-> the browser should now display the plain bibtex code
copy the bibtex
go to jabRef give focus to the main table with all your entries
just press ctrl+v
-> the new entry will be added automatically