BibItNow!

NEW FEATURE 0.901: PDF Fallback mode. If any citable item is viewed as a pdf, BibItNow! cannot obtain citation data reliably. On enabled websites of major publishers, it now offers the user the option to instead load the corresponding abstract page. In some rare circumstances, it can even load the abstract page in the background and automatically obtain citation data from the abstract page instead. The pdf fallback mode and/or automatic preloading in the background can be disabled under Global options.

NOTE: The "autofocus" option does not work all the time due to a bug in Firefox. If the citation text is not highlighted upon opening the extension popup, click on the popup once and the text will be highlighted automatically. This auto highlight is only performed if the first attempt to highlight the text fails. Further clicks on the popup will not result in the citation text being highlighted.

DESCRIPTION

So what!? Why should I care about "BibItNow!" ?

    Well, probably most scientists know the following situation: you are looking up a nice article that you want to cite, but you somehow run into troubles getting the bibliographic data from your browser into your citation library. It is often already hard to find the "export" button, but even if you have found it, chances are that it does not work if you use a script blocker to avoid the bazillions of unnecessary scripts that are let loose at you nowadays. And even if the export button works, the result is often useless, as it comes in an inconvenient format or contains special characters that are not compatible with your particular bibliography system of choice.

    Bibliographic tools which are directly coupled to the browser, such as the popular tool Zotero, have already simplified this task a lot. However, the workflow of these tools is mostly optimized towards their own integrated library system, whereas many users might prefer different library tools while only caring about the citation data extraction capabilities. This plugin offers exactly that, a lightweight tool that focuses solely on extracting citation data as quickly and as correctly as possible. Click the extension's tool bar icon or press the browser action shortcut keys when surfing on the abstract page of a journal article, a book, a thesis, or on any other web page, and the extension will try everything to extract all the data you want. In the format you like, with the encoding it needs! Decide whether you want to simply copy to clipboard, download a file or open it with the program of YOUR CHOICE!

Not happy? You can also contribute by visiting my github: https://github.com/Langenscheiss/bibitnow