>
> It shouldn’t be too difficult to write a “capture” function in emacs
> that turns such records into entries in an org file. That would be
> automatic enough for me.
>
There is bibretrieve (https://github.com/pzorin/bibretrieve) and bibfetch (https://github.com/dschoepe/bibfetch/blob/master/bibfetch.el).
Vikas