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Did you know that you can configure Google Scholar to provide RIS download links?

RIS is an industry-standard format for importing and exporting bibliography information. Recently I posted a PHP library for working with RIS files. I wanted to find a good search tool that would allow me to find articles, and then download them into Lantern (a project I will release soon).

RefMan is a popular tool that also uses the RIS format. So to enable RIS downloads, simply tell Google Scholar to provide RefMan support.

Here are the steps to do this:

1. Log into Google Scholar (http://scholar.google.com)
2. Click on scholar preferences next to the Search button.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the configuration screen to Bibliography Manager and choose RefMan

Here's a screenshot showing the last step.
Bibliography Manager Settings

Once you have saved those preferences, every article in your search results should have an Import into RefMan link next to it.

LibRIS is a library for parsing and writing RIS data.

Learn all about it at the official GitHub repository.

RIS is a data file format for handling reference metadata for scholarly resources. It is used by Reference Manager, EndNote, and other such tools. For that reason, it is broadly supported by online scholar-centered sites.

This library provides a simple interface for parsing and writing RIS data for bibliography management.