Manage your local scientific library!
This tool is still unstable. Your local database may be corrupt after updating!
Install xivar via
cargo install xivarxivar lets you search publications online at DBLP and arXiv, and open or download them if available. xivar saves the locations of downloaded publications and shows them in your next search.
Search a publication online and local.
xivarClean your database, i.e. remove entries of publications which cannot be found at their saved location.
xivar cleanIn Linux-based systems, the database is located at ~/.local/share/xivar.
Since this is still very much work in progress, the database may be corrupt after updating to a new version!
You can configure the default download location via a configuration file located at ~/.config/xivar/xivar.toml with the following content
document_dir = "absolute/path/to/directory"- Update library
- Specify query more precisely (title, author, AND, OR etc.)
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