[Tex/LaTex] Well-maintained BibTeX Databases

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Looking for properly formatted BibTeX citations for articles or books can be tedious. I used to use the functionality from Google Scholar, but found that for many cases the BibTeX files are poorly formatted, are missing information, or even contain wrong information.

For mathematics papers, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet/ appears to be a reasonable alternative. But it is manually maintained and unfortunately a paid service (many universities have access).

Are there other similar databases, possibly for other fields of science?

Best Answer

For me, I do not use a single source, rather a combination of resources and techniques. Actually, there are a number of tools or resources you can use under the circumstances.

  • Documents searched through Cite Seer X will have a BibTeX entry at the right hand side of screen. Perhaps this is the most comprehensive one.

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  • Entries in ACM Digital Library all has BibTeX entries. Please look at the right hand side of screen.

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  • I am not sure which BibTeX entries in Google Scholar you are referring to. If you click on the actual publisher site (not the unreliable download link which may or may not appear at the right hand site), you will often find BibTeX entries in the publisher site. The point is also applicable in the previous case.
  • If you use menedely as your reference management tool, citing a paper from your personal collection is very easy.

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Please see here how you can do this in mendeley. You can even generate a .bib file in one go, which is rather nice. Other reference management tools like Papers, EndNote, or Zotero should have similar functionalities, I am not very sure.

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