Custom web address for accessing articles through DOI

[jpdehollain]

When I click on the Open button next to the DOI of an entry it opens a web browser to the address https://doi.org/[DOI], which then redirects to the article website. In order to access articles in subscription-based journals, my institution has a shortcut that involves modifying the address to the doi site (e.g. for my institution it is https://doi-org.ezproxy.lib.uts.edu.au/[DOI]). It would be great if the address used to access the articles through the DOI could be modified in the preferences.

[Ali96kz]

I am a newbie to jabref, could you please provide an instruction on how to find that button

[Siedlerchr]

Add a new entry with a DOI, you can then find the button next to the DOI field.

What needs to be done:

• Add a preference for specifying a custom DOI base url in the preferences
• Use that preferences value when opening the URL of the DOI
• Maybe also use that preferences value for downloading full text?

[Ali96kz]

Started working on it

[Siedlerchr]

Thanks to @BJaroszkowski this issue is now resolved. There is now an option in the preferences.

We would like to ask you to use a development build from https://builds.jabref.org/master and report back if it works for you. Please remember to make a backup of your library before trying-out this version.

[jpdehollain]

@Siedlerchr @Ali96kz Thanks for getting this done. I tried it out, but I think the feature is not complete yet. Currently, it only works when I click the Open button from the entry editor window. However, if I click on the Linked identifiers button from my entry list, or if I right-click an entry and choose Open URL or DOI (or hit F3), it does not use the customised URL base.

Hope the explanation is clear, if it's not I can add some screenshots.

[Ali96kz]

@jpdehollain It's not me. That task was already in development when I wanted to start @BJaroszkowski

[BJaroszkowski]

Yes, the explanation is clear and it is something that I overlooked - opening DOI URI from LibraryTab and IdentifierEditor was handled differently. I will be shortly submitting PR to address that issue.

[Siedlerchr]

This is now fixed in the latest development version (note that the newest version is now always under "main")

We would like to ask you to use a development build from https://builds.jabref.org/main and report back if it works for you. Please remember to make a backup of your library before trying-out this version.

[jpdehollain]

Works great! Thanks for implementing this @BJaroszkowski and @Siedlerchr