Quickly add gray literature#508

We have a need to enter grey literature search results into Nested Knowledge (e.g., guidance that is only available on websites, hospital policies, government reports, white papers, training presentations, and news. We want to be able to manage and cite these search results along with our journal search results. I know that we can hand enter these results under Literature Search -> Other Sources -> Add Manually. However, we will likely have a good number of grey literature results for each project, and are looking for a more efficient process. I wonder if NK could develop an option under “Add by Identifier” to enter a URL and have NK create a record? Even if all the fields we need are not completely populated this feature would save us a lot of time. An alternative approach would be the ability to tell a citation to “go to NK”. Something like EndNote “Click” for Google Chrome?

This is a cool recommendation, and something Zotero/Endnote are capable of. It would be quite cool to generate a similar function. Since Zotero is open source, we can take a look into the approach they take!

As a workaround in the interim, you might gather these references with EndNote/Zotero, and import into NK as a RIS?

Thanks for considering this, Karl. The only way I know of to get non-journal articles into EndNote is by hand-entering the citation info into each EndNote field, like we do in NK when manually adding a reference. Otherwise I thought EndNote had the same limits as NK–if you want to add something “automatically” you can only do so with an import, or with a PMID or DOI. I’m don’t use Zotero as often, but I thought it had the same limit. Do you know of a way to automatically add non-journal info to EndNote? I may not have worded things very well in my initial request. I was using EndNote’s Click extension for Google Chrome as an example, but that app is limited because it only works on journal citations, not the informational web pages/sites I mentioned above (news, guidelines, policies, reports, white papers, presentations). Although I would like to see Nested Knowledge create a Chrome extension to add Google Scholar records in order to save time, there are other ways to get those records into NK (e.g., a DOI search). What I need even more is a quick/automatic way to get the non-journal stuff directly into NK. Even if it’s just adding a page title and URL, even that would save some time. Hope this makes sense. If I EndNote does have this feature then I may not need it in NK, but I don’t think EndNote does?