Biblioscape can automatically find references that are related to your current selection. When you browse references, you can click the "Related" tab at the bottom of the preview pane. All related references will be shown in a browser window. There are several ways to find related references. You can switch between the 3 ways by clicking the buttons at the top of the "Related" pane.
| • | Related: Biblioscape uses Google Scholar to find related articles. If you have used Google to search web pages, you may be familiar with the "Similar pages" feature. "Related articles" is similar to the "Similar pages" feature. Instead of web pages, it will find related references based on Google's proprietary algorithm. The result is very satisfactory in most cases. With this features, you can quickly expand your reference collection and find useful references easily. |
| • | Cited by: Google Scholar has one of the largest collections of references. It also tracks when and where a references is cited in other research publications. This kind of feature was only available in some commercial citation databases. Now, Google provides this service for free, and it is very easy to use. If you click the "Cited by" button, Biblioscape will display all the references that have cited the current selection based on Google Scholar. |
| • | Search: When this button is clicked, Biblioscape will simply take the last name of the first 3 authors of the current reference, plus the publication year, and the first few words in the title, and run a search against Google Scholar. The result will be displayed in the Related tab. |
You can capture a related reference into your database with a single click. When viewing related references, you can click the "Import into BibTeX" hyperlink. Biblioscape will automatically import the reference into your database. If you are in a folder, the new reference will be imported into that folder. If you are in a collection, the new reference will be imported into the last opened folder, and also added into the current collection.