The package below has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon be at your favorite mirror.
Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: findbib Author's name: Kevin Goldstein Location on CTAN: /biblio/bibtex/utils/findbib Summary description: Find bibliographic details from SPIRES License type: gpl
Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is an update of the findbib script which incorporates changes in the Spires website and arxiv numbering system.
Findbib is a script that enables the user to avoid writing BibTeX database entries for papers that appear on SPIRES: if the citation key is in SPIRES standard form or in the form of an arxiv number, the bibliographic details are retrieved on-line. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
This package is located at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/biblio/bibtex/utils/findbib . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=findbib (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .