Using the Mendeley My publication is absolutely wonderful, in particular because it is easy to upload your own paper--via mendeley--and then make them accessible on your own page via Bibbase. However, the bibtex file that bibbase generates is not clean.

Here is what I get: http://christophe.heintz.free.fr/publications.htm

1. the biggest problem is that the names of editors are not printed

2. the bibtex info for each publication includes too many completely irrelevant information, such as:  isauthor = {1}, and url_mendeley= ...

3. the last information "url_mendeley" leads bibbase to display a link to Mendeley for each paper ... it would be better not to have this link (which only lead to redundant information).

I have generated myself a bibtex file using Mendeley and it gives something clean with no mistakes (even though it still includes info about where the paper is stored on my own computer):

http://christophe.heintz.free.fr/MyPubli.htm

The problem is that the pdf version stored on Mendeley are not made available any more ! I could not generate a bibtex file that would include

url_pdf_0 = {http://www.mendeley.com/download/public/ --ID of the paper in question---.pdf}

Is it all right to ask here for a fix, or should I rather write to Mendeley?

Thanks a lot.

Christophe

(This is not a request, but a possible solution.)

Keeping the BibTeX file (say list.bib) on Google Drive (GD) or similar services (like Dropbox, etc.) may be useful since you can update your bibliography without bothering to upload the updated version online.

Unfortunately, GD (and Dropbox) do not provide the "direct" link to list.bib needed by BibBase to produce the final bibliography. Here is a workaround for GD:

1. Create a public folder in GD and put in it your list.bib; both the file and the folder must be shared publicly with everyone (after all, this is the aim of putting your bibliography online, I assume)

2. Obtain a direct link to list.bib from a free service online. For me, the following one worked:

https://sites.google.com/site/gdocs2direct/

You just need to obtain from GD the sharing link as usual (right click on list.bib, Share...) and to paste it in the site above, which then produces a new, direct link to copy.

3. Paste the direct link in the BibBase page to generate the bibliography.

A working example is on my page:  http://www.webalice.it/g.cevolani/

A cleaner solution for step 2 above (that in any case you need to do only once) would be better.

I hope this may be useful to others,

Gustavo

It would be nice to have support for multiple bibtex files (e.g., bib=<something>&bib1=<something_else>&bib2=..) . Imagine each individual in a research group uses bibbase to maintain their publications. Then, building a publications page for the whole group would be trivial with this feature.

I've just updated my small site using BibBase, and it's really wonderful.

I just point out some minor bugs with the output here:

http://www.webalice.it/g.cevolani/

1. A comma (,) should be used to separate multiple authors' and editors' names instead of the semi-colon (;); at least this seems to be a nearly universal convention.

2. A part for accented letters, which are handled correctly, other LaTeX commands which may appear in titles or journal names (like "\&" or "\emph" or even "--" in page ranges) are not interpreted (see, e.g., 3rd entry in 2011).

3. If the pages field is missing from the bib entry (for instance because the article is forthoming), a incorrect space is produced in the final entry (see 2nd entry in the site)

4. In some entries, but not in others, the page numbers are preceded by the text "page", which should be "pages" or better nothing, as in other entries (see 1st entry).

5. After the colon before the page range, a space would improve readibility.

Hope this helps.

Thanks,

Gustavo

Hi folks, I tried to "sign-in" using the google login option, but received an "Error: Username already exists. [403]", this doesn't make much sense.  As a result I can't login in to the page. 

Hello,

I have Bibbase linked to a Zotero database. I would like to share my database without having to host it on my partner's site. Is it possible for him to create a Bibbase account and associate it with my database?

Otherwise, for it to work, should we use our Bibbase account on their site?

Thank you for your help, Thank you for your help,

How can I delete my Bibbase account? I cannot find anything in the FAQ or other support topics about this.