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6 <H1>Importing From CiteSeer</H1>
9 CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine
10 that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information
13 <H2>Importing An Entry From CiteSeer</H2>
15 JabRef can download information about a particular citation from the CiteSeer database.
16 To start this process, add a new entry into your database and populate the citeseerurl field with
17 a link to its content page on CiteSeer. The citeseerurl field must be in one of the following formats:
19 <p>http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/DDDDDD[.html], or <br>
20 oai:CiteSeerPSU:DDDDDD, or <br>
23 <p>where DDDDD is a sequence of digits. To find the sequence of digits (DDDDD) for a CiteSeer entry,
24 goto the citation's document page of the format http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/<i>nameYearTitle</i>.html
25 and click on the (Update) link for this citation. The URL for the Update link will contain the numeric
28 <p>Once you have populated the citeseerurl field, you may download the CiteSeer fields by selecting
29 <b>BibTex -> Import Fields from CiteSeer</b>. Make sure you have selected the row(s) you wish to
32 <H2>Generating a Citation Database</H2>
34 Given a set of references, you can generate a list of documents that cite the elements of this set.
35 To facilitate this feature, each citation in a database must have a citeseerurl field with the format specified
36 in <b>Importing An Entry From CiteSeer</b>. To use this feature, select <b>Web Search -> Fetch Citations
39 <H2>Using a Proxy Server</H2>
41 If you need to use an http proxy server, pass the server name and
42 port number to java at runtime. These environment settings are documented
43 at <p> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/properties.html
45 <p><code>java -Dhttp.proxyHost="hostname" -Dhttp.proxyPort="portnumber"</code>