Dear _all,
I am dipping my toe into the cold pool of meta-analysis, and have been
really happy with the results Google Scholar generates, producing
citations for which electronic or physical copies can then be hunted
down, but I don't want to enter bibliographic data on 600 or 900 or
more studies by hand. Google Scholar has a nice way to set
Preferences so that links to bibliographic info are generated in the
search results, but I don't use BibTeX or EndNote or any of those
things--I use Stata, and I want to automate the whole process of
seaching and saving those data (which look like
http://scholar.google.com/scholar.bib?q=info:nmXVGJVxYjQJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation
by the way) and infiling them into Stata so I can have a nice database
of articles made for me on any set of search terms I put in.
The trouble is this: the link to bibliographic data is not a static
page; it is generated on the fly, so Stata cannot -copy- to a local
file to -infile- the info. I will need a browser to browse to that
location, and then save the results. Does anyone have a freeware
solution to this problem? I have access to several varieties of
Windows and Unix/Linux, but no Mac OS options. What I am thinking is
that if there is a command line browser with the option to save the
page to disk, I can just invoke the page and save it with a single
line of code that begins with the -shell- command, and then infile it
with another that begins -infile-.
Yours hopefully,
Austin
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