At some point bring it back to the list, please. Enquiring minds want to know...

Thanks,

SK

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2012 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation manager --> ??? --> BePress Bulk-upload Excel spreadsheet

Mita,
A while back (I mean at least six years ago) I wrote some code to take citations downloaded from an index provider, reformat them into bepress spreadsheet format, and bulk upload them. The purpose of the project was to identify published articles by University of California faculty, email them that we had citations of their work in our system, and wouldn't they like to upload their copy of their article into the repository? I don't have the numbers on that project, but I recall that it did boost submissions.

Unfortunately, I think the code, which was likely crappy anyway, has long since moldered to dust on a server somewhere that I no longer have access to, but I can put you in touch with someone at UC who might be doing something like this. I'll email you off-list.
Roy

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Mita Williams <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> We're trying to figure out a workflow for our BePress IR and was 
> curious if anyone in code4libland has developed "something" (an Excel 
> macro? a Zotero export function?) that could take formatted citations 
> and put them in the proper order so they could be bulk added to the 
> BePress bulk upload Excel spreadsheet.  Or perhaps there's an 
> altogether different way of going about collecting, formatting, and adding such things for BePress.
>
> Everything counts in large amounts.
> Mita
>