# Link to preprint servers **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Created:** [October 1, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/link-to-preprint-servers/6455 "2020-10-01T21:11:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![melsophos](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@melsophos](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/melsophos)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2020, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/link-to-preprint-servers/6455/1 "2020-10-01T21:11:43Z")
For academic writing, it would be great to easily refers to papers on preprint servers (such as [arxiv](http://arxiv.org/)) or published (using DOI). When writing notes on projects, there can be _a lot_ of citations, so having shortcuts would be very useful to reduce typing and avoiding cluttering the markdown source. For preprint servers, the simplest solution would be to create automatically a link when recognizing the server name followed by a preprint ID, for example: [arxiv:hep-th/9206084](https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9206084). This is the customary way of sharing papers in theoretical physics for example (so copying information from an email would directly create all necessary links). One could even remove `arxiv:` in the preview. A DOI can be linked using the prefix `doi:` and the address `http://dx.doi.org/`. More generally, users could provide pairs of name and URL, such that `name:ID` maps to `url/ID`. ---
**Author:** ![Niklas](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/34f0e0/32.png) [@Niklas](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/Niklas)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/link-to-preprint-servers/6455/2 "2020-12-06T21:44:40Z")
Yes! In the future you could think of a browser plugin that would automatically create an obsidian note for each preprint, containing the doi, link and abstract. ---
**Author:** ![melsophos](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/f17d59/32.png) [@melsophos](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/melsophos)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/link-to-preprint-servers/6455/3 "2020-12-31T23:39:18Z")
In fact after thinking a bit more, the best would be to have a plugin in Zotero (or any other bibliography management software) which uses Obsidian as a backend for its notes. Then the notes could be displayed both in Obsidian to be reused by other notes, but also be associated to the PDF. I am thinking of building a new bibliography management software, I would definitely include this if I do. ---
**Author:** ![and97](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@and97](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/and97)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/link-to-preprint-servers/6455/4 "2023-08-17T13:49:07Z")
THIS. Writing to revive this request. it would be really helpful to be able to generate a full template note starting only from an arxiv link i.e. building up templates that retrieve all the article metadata directly from arxiv and fill up the info on my newly generated note. This would really unlock obsidian’s potential in literature research in terms of ease of use. ---
**Author:** ![johnlunney](https://forum.obsidian.md/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9fc348/32.png) [@johnlunney](https://forum.obsidian.md/u/johnlunney)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2024, 7:02am UTC](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/link-to-preprint-servers/6455/5 "2024-02-26T07:02:30Z")
> [@Niklas](#): > > plugin that would automatically create an obsidian note for each preprint, containing the doi, link and Here’s an Obsidian plugin (not mine) that does that, albeit only on desktop: > **[GitHub - chauff/paper-note-filler: Obsidian plugin to automatically create a...](https://github.com/chauff/paper-note-filler)** > > Obsidian plugin to automatically create a note from arXiv.org, acl anthology and semantic scholar. - chauff/paper-note-filler