nocite all entries of a biblatex entry type

Question

I am writing my cv and although I only want to print some of my @unpublished and @inproceedings entries in my bibliography, I do want to print all of my @article entries.

Is there any way in which I can \nocite all entries of a specific type (@article in this case)?

Consider that I have my entries in separate files depending on its type. Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}
\addbibresource{articles.bib}
\addbibresource{talks.bib}
\addbibresource{unpublished.bib}
\begin{document}
% How do I nocite all @article entries?
\nocite{<all @article entries>}
\nocite{sometalk, someothertalk}
\nocite{someunpublished, someotherunpublished}
% This should print all articles
\printbibliography[title=Articles, type=article]
% This should print sometalk and someothertalk
\printbibliography[title=Talks, type=inproceedings]
% This should print someunpublished and someotherunpublished
\printbibliography[title=Unpublished, type=unpublished]
\end{document}

moewe · Answer 1 · 2020-09-02T14:56:35.600

\nocite only supports listing entry keys you want to add to your bibliography or \nocite{*} to allow all available entries from your .bib file(s) to be added.

There is no way to tell \nocite to pick only @articles or entries with other properties, see \nocite{*} for single bibdatasources with biblatex/biber, Is it possible to add entries to the bibliography based on keyword using Biblatex/Biber and within the document code?.

There is, however, a workaround in newer versions of Biber that allows you to clear out entries you don't want with a sourcemap. This will result in the expected output.

You will need the starnocited keyword that was added in biblatex 3.15/Biber 2.15 (https://github.com/plk/biber/issues/319).

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[backend=biber, defernumbers=true]{biblatex}
\DeclareSourcemap{
  \maps[datatype=bibtex, overwrite]{
    \map{
      \pernottype{article}
      \step[starnocited=true, final]
      \step[entrynull]
    }
  }
}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\begin{document}
\nocite{*}
\nocite{westfahl:space,gaonkar:in}
\nocite{salam} % we don't want moraux
% This should print all articles
\printbibliography[title=@article, type=article]
% This should print salam but not moraux
\printbibliography[title=@inproceedings, type=inproceedings]
% This should print westfahl:space gaonkar:in and nothing else
\printbibliography[title=@incollection, type=incollection]
\end{document}

This clears out all entries that are not @articles that are only present because of \nocite{*} (i.e. entries that were not \cited or \nocited explicitly with their key)

nocite all entries of a biblatex entry type

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