Thank you for the reply, Yan!
I meant "PDF URLs as download link of the publications in BibTeX". It would be great if it was possible to specify the URL for article's PDF directly in the BibTeX entry.
Just like this (in red, sorry for doubling):
@ARTICLE{entryID,
author = {Author, A. A.},
title = {Title of the paper},
journal = {Journal's name},
year = {2011},
volume = {100},
pages = {243--256},
number = {1},
pdfurl = {http://www.somesite.com/pubs/article3456.pdf}
}
I have a large BibTeX file with dozens of article's entries. For each entry I have URL for original PDF from publication house. It is quite natural to upload it in one pass.
Also there are some associated questions: What should be the name of BibTeX data entry to specify the URL for PDF? Is it necessary to specify separate URLs for official HTML page of publication and official PDF?
Personally, I vote for "url" for HTML link and "pdfurl" for PDF link:
...
url={http://www.somesite.com/pubs/article3456.html},
pdfurl={http://www.somesite.com/pubs/article3456.pdf},
...
As for extracting metadata from the PDF - I think it's more sophisticated task and it can be much easier just to "ask author" for the correct metadata.
Thank you for your job,
Alexander