The CiteSeerX MetaCart
We have received several feedback items indicating that the MetaCart feature is not intuitive at first glance. There is definitely a need to document this useful feature, so I will describe it here until there is time to update the site documentation accordingly.
The MetaCart is intended to serve as a shopping cart for metadata (hence the somewhat odd name), but unlike a traditional shopping cart, you do not have to pay anything for the items you check out. As you search and browse CiteSeerX you will find links named "Add To MetaCart". Click on these to save a document record into your session. For now, JavaScript is required as the facility is implemented using AJAX.
Whenever you would like to view or download items in your cart, click on the "MetaCart" link found at the top right corner of nearly every page. Here you will be given the option to download metadata records in BibTeX or Refer/BibIX format. Currently, this is the sole means of obtaining BibTeX records from documents in CiteSeerX. We may add a facility to get single BibTeX records from document summary pages in the future if there is demand for that.
TIP: You can also use the MetaCart as a temporary workspace where you can save documents as you use CiteSeerX. Items in the MetaCart are hyperlinked to the document summary page (when we have the corresponding PDF or PS file) or to the corresponding citation search page (when we have only citation data for a record). If you want to keep track of your browsing history, just add interesting documents to your MetaCart and use it to quickly navigate among documents you have saved.
The MetaCart is intended to serve as a shopping cart for metadata (hence the somewhat odd name), but unlike a traditional shopping cart, you do not have to pay anything for the items you check out. As you search and browse CiteSeerX you will find links named "Add To MetaCart". Click on these to save a document record into your session. For now, JavaScript is required as the facility is implemented using AJAX.
Whenever you would like to view or download items in your cart, click on the "MetaCart" link found at the top right corner of nearly every page. Here you will be given the option to download metadata records in BibTeX or Refer/BibIX format. Currently, this is the sole means of obtaining BibTeX records from documents in CiteSeerX. We may add a facility to get single BibTeX records from document summary pages in the future if there is demand for that.
TIP: You can also use the MetaCart as a temporary workspace where you can save documents as you use CiteSeerX. Items in the MetaCart are hyperlinked to the document summary page (when we have the corresponding PDF or PS file) or to the corresponding citation search page (when we have only citation data for a record). If you want to keep track of your browsing history, just add interesting documents to your MetaCart and use it to quickly navigate among documents you have saved.
Re: The CiteSeerX MetaCart
Hi,
The new CiteSeerX is awesome. I have few suggestions which would probably help to make it better.
- Add a place where I can add my own notes to the papers.
- Ability to view others notes. This way sometimes I don't have to read the whole paper to understand what it is about. I would like to share my notes this way.
- Please provide some visual feedback letting me know that the item has been added to metacart. Right now, I am not sure if the item is added.
- Also, it would be great if you can provide a big bibtex file that lists all the papers. That way I don't have to create a bibtex file for every paper i write.
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Thanks,
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Re: The CiteSeerX MetaCart
I stopped using CiteSeerX since the additional steps needed for dealing with metacart. The original citeseer allows to get an article in one click. Now, instead of moronic metacart, I go elsewhere on the web to get papers that I need. If you don't want the citeseerX to languish, kill the moronic metacart and allow the researchers to get to the papers in one click, just one the original citeseer!
Hope this helps.