Support for Smithsonian/NASA ADS Astronomy Abstract Service

theine

Dear developors,

I can't tell you how happy I am to have learned about Zotero. This tool will easily increase my productivity by orders of magnitude.

Having said that, would it be possible to add support for NASA ADS (http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html)? If this would work just as well as the SPIRES HEP-Search (http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires) does already, you can be assured of my eternal gratefulness.

Kind regards,
Tobias Heinemann

brucethepirate

I second this request. Let me be a little more complete: For astronomers, virtially all our searches are done at the ads http://adsabs.harvard.edu or the arxiv service http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph. This is a fantastic, amazing idea, and all the developers are to be congratuated for not turning their backs on everyone but the latex users.

However, if you are trying to be for real research in any sense, you'd do better advertising the physics/astrophysics archives and the like instead of amazon! Who needs bib info from amazon???? People who write about the vampire books?

Thanks,

-The Pirate

sean

Just to be clear, this thread is ancient, and Zotero has fully supported both NASA ADS and arXiv.org for several years now.

anders_royce

Edit: Never mind, didn't see the previous post.

For astronomers, virtially all our searches are done at the ads http://adsabs.harvard.edu or the arxiv service http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph

It seems both these sites are supported. Are you unable to add papers to your library from them?

brucethepirate

Thank you very much sean, for your comment. However, I can't get zotero to recognize any bibliographic information. Here's a specific example:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ASSL..290..221S is an article by Sage.
I highlight the super obvious citation in the "Publication" heading, I create an item and note. Then I go to the item, ctrl-click to get the menu, then highlight "Create Bibliography". I get the error message, "The items you have selected contain no references".

How am I going about this wrong?

Thanks,

-Bruce

anders_royce

Bruce, just look for a "paper" icon in the address bar of your browser. There are several ways to add references to Zotero, but what you tried isn't one of them (would be cool though).
http://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library

Edit: To clarify, what you did will add the webpage itself as an item in your library, and then add the highlighted text to that "webpage" item as a note. It will not add the paper on the page.

magnusp

Thank you for a great software!

As an update on this. The new interface to the NASA ADS does not seem to be supported by the connector (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu).

Taking an example paper, e.g. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/#abs/2006A&A...460..953M/abstract
there is no paper icon showing for me. Anyone else with this problem?

adamsmith

we can take a look, but given the way the site is constracted, it's exceedlingly hard to work with (that, e.g., why Zotero doesn't recognize the DOI on that page you link to like it would on most other pages).
We'd have to work with the API, which looks like it requires an authorization key, so another hurdle there.

magnusp

Yeah, I was suspecting that. All this modernization...not always the most flexible solution.

Thanks anyway, we'll see what happens. I can still use the old interface, where it works.