Search by title for bibtex without doi

[pesho-ivanov]

Often the bibtex entries do not contain doi information. It will be useful to automatically search by the available information.

A low-hanging solution could be to reuse the already implemented Search by title functionality and ask the user to agree with each matching paper.

In order not to repeat this process, the user could export the papers together with their doi (already implemented) and edit the original bib file.

[pesho-ivanov]

Another solution is to just update the bib file by a tool like betterbib.

[barney-walker]

betterbib looks very useful, however betterbib is python based so it complicates things a bit.

We'd have to send the bibtex to the server and the server would have to spawn a python process to run betterbib and then send the bib back. Would also mean more devops to make sure the python environment is set up correctly on the sever with betterbib installed.

If someone was already running betterbib (or similar) as a web service we could just use via an API that would simplify things a lot!