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Lookup a Bibtex entry using a Digital Object Identifier

Source: R/GetBibEntryWithDOI.R
GetBibEntryWithDOI.Rd

Uses the DOI System API to look up bibliography information given a set of DOIs.

Usage

GetBibEntryWithDOI(
  doi,
  temp.file = tempfile(fileext = ".bib"),
  delete.file = TRUE
)

Arguments

doi

character vector; DOIs to use to retrieve bibliographic information.

temp.file

string; a file to write the Bibtex data returned by the DOI System to.

delete.file

logical; should temp.file be deleted when the function exits?

Value

an object of class BibEntry.

Details

The bibliographic information returned by the search of the https://www.doi.org/ API is temporarily written to a file and then read back into R and return as a BibEntry object.

References

https://www.doi.org/tools.html

See also

ReadCrossRef, BibEntry

Examples

if (interactive() && !httr::http_error("https://www.doi.org/"))
  GetBibEntryWithDOI(c("10.1016/j.iheduc.2003.11.004", "10.3998/3336451.0004.203"))