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Change order of ISBN fetchers to improve fetching most complete information #8652

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ThiloteE opened this issue Apr 7, 2022 · 0 comments
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Change order of ISBN fetchers to improve fetching most complete information #8652

ThiloteE opened this issue Apr 7, 2022 · 0 comments
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@ThiloteE ThiloteE commented Apr 7, 2022

See discussion and report of the problem in the forum: https://discourse.jabref.org/t/ebook-de-incomplete-isbn-information/3313

When using the Import by ID feature using ISBN, the first search engine is ebook(dot)de, as explained in the jabref documentation. It seems that ebook(dot)de only provides one author in the author field (this has happened multiple times, I don’t know if it’s a general feature of ebook(dot)de). For example, for ISBN 0521099064, the ebook.de output 1 shows Stephen Hawking as author, while the ottobib.com output 1 correctly shows S. Hawking and G. Ellis as authors. Shouldn’t the first search tool provide the most complete information?

Can reproduce with ISBN: 9780203854693

I think it makes sense to switch the order. Ottobib apparently uses WorldCat as source
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