wos2bib - Web of Science to BibTeX

wos2bib is a small program to convert the reference files Web of Science outputs into BibTeX format. BibTeX is the bibliography package commonly used with LaTeX.

Runs on Mac OS X, Linux, *BSD, and maybe DOS. Binary only available on OS X

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(5/3/2006)
A few things I am planning on doing when I get a chance

set up list of words (user configurable) that should not be capitalized when fixing case (the, to, at, from...) If anyone knows of a list on the web, that would make that part of my job a little easier.
set up a list of words (user configurable) that should allways be all CAPS when fixing case (e.g. NOAA, NCAR, CCM... you can tell where my bias lies ;)).
search abstracts for all upper case words and make those all upper case in the title
if appending to a bibtex file, parse bibtex and make sure we aren't duplicating references or citation keys.
add times cited, and possibly cited refs
If there was a way to always get DOIs from ISI then I'd like to add a DOI lookup/PDF download, but this seems impossible at the moment

(11/18/2005)
Where to go from here... wos2bib presently does everything I need, and I haven't had a problem with it in a few years of use. However as a pet project I would be interested in continuing development, so if you see anything you need, let me know.

UPDATE May 12, 2005 :
0.5.4 Hermann Schier updated the check for the AR field to include all Physical Review journals, not just Physical Review Letters

Use wos2bib in conjunction with OnMyCommand to make it into a contextual menu item in the Mac OS X Finder!

UPDATE Nov. 10, 2004 :
0.5.2 Modified the code that changes the case of the author field to only effect words that have more than 2 characters. Now Beringer, "Geller, MA" does not become "Geller, Ma", but "GELLER, MA" does become "Geller, MA"
0.5.3 and a quick change so that we don't change case at all if Web of Science appears to have the case correct (i.e. they aren't ALL upper case letters) This preserves the case of abbreviations if possible.

UPDATE Oct. 26, 2004 :
0.5.1 Florian Marquardt added code to properly handle the AR field for Physical Review journals where the article number (AR) replaces the page number (pages are numbered AR-1 AR-2). It will only do this for Physical Review Letters right now. If you find another journal it should do this for let me know.

Also in 0.5.1 wos2bib now reads the month from the PD field.

UPDATE March 25, 2004 :
0.5 wos2bib no longer creates duplicate keys if you have two records by the same first author in one year! It now adds a, b, c... as appropriate to the end of the key.

Convert author names, titles, journals, and keywords to lowercase (except the first letter in a word). This was added because Web of Science frequently seems to convert ALL letters to upper case.

Updated January 10, 2004 to handle larger abstracts (up to 32k). If you find a larger abstract shoot the author, not me.

Thanks to Maarten Sneep for several enhancements to the code, and to Arno Steinen for pointing out a bug when run on Linux systems.

Links

BibDesk an Excellent BibTeX GUI organizer for Mac OS X.
LaTeX project

A google search for wos2bib.
Another wos2bib tool was written by Jörg Mäder. It exists both as a commandline tool and as a web based tool (and his website looks much prettier than mine)

For feature requests or bug reports contact : Ethan Gutmann gutmann at colorado dot edu