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isi2bibtex 0.40
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Isi2bibtex converts an ISI (Institute for Scientific Information)
bibliographic database file to a BibTeX file for use in TeX and LaTeX
documents. Both formats hold bibliographic data on scientific and other
academic documents.
(In the UK, the ISI databases are commonly known as 'BIDS' or 'MIMAS WoS')
See man page for detailed instructions.
Installation:
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If you don't have Perl installed, it can be got (free) from
http://www.perl.com/ . LaTeX, BibTeX and everything else TeX can
be downloaded from http://www.CTAN.org/ .
Unix
set the first line of the script to point to your copy of perl
(eg. /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/bin/perl)
make it executable (eg. chmod +x ./isi2bibtex)
put it somewhere your OS can find it (eg ~/bin or /usr/local/bin):
you may need to change your PATH environment variable
if you want, put the configuration file (isi2bibtexrc) in your home
directory (rename it as ~/.isi2bibtexrc first)
put the manpage (isi2bibtex.1) somewhere where man will find it
(eg. /usr/local/share/man/man1/), or just use the html or text
copies instead
Microsoft Windows
[Note: apparently some newer windows systems do not have a DOS shell
by default. If you find you don't have a shell, you will probably
have to install one - there are several free ones available.]
change the name of the script to isi2bibtex.pl (you'll have to use
it as
isi2bibtex.pl [OPTIONS] inputfile.txt [outputfile.bib]
rather than
isi2bibtex [OPTIONS] inputfile.txt [outputfile.bib]
because the windows DOS shell doesn't know about the #! line)
put it in your Perl bin directory, eg C:\Perl\bin (obviously if
you don't have perl installed, you need to do that first: see
below)
if that doesn't work check the PATH environment variable
contains your perl bin directory, and as a last resort try
perl C:\Perl\bin\isi2bibtex.pl inputfile.txt
if you want, put the configuration file (isi2bibtexrc) somewhere
and change the @CONFIG variable in the script to point to that
file.
Other platforms
I have no idea, but it should work on any platform that runs
Perl 5, perhaps with a few small modifications. Isi2bibtex has
been tested on Windows (95 and NT) and Unix. Please send me any
portability changes.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2000 Jonathan Swinton, Ben Bolker, Anthony Stone,
John J. Lee
Isi2bibtex is covered by the GPL -- see the script for details.
Send bug reports to <jjl@pobox.com>.