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How to Export Complete Search Results to Zotero

I’ve been getting more requests lately to help faculty and students work with Zotero, some of whom want to know how to take a set of search results and bring them all in to Zotero. I just recorded a pair of videos for one person about how to do that and thought I might as well get more mileage out of that effort by sharing them here, too.

Part 1: Using the “export” option PsycINFO to email yourself a link where you can download the file with the citations:
https://www.screencast.com/t/yZiq25gDIp0u

Part 2: Retrieving the file from the link in the email you receive, unzipping the file, and then importing the file (and all the citations therein) into Zotero:
https://www.screencast.com/t/DbIjhWNv

If you have any questions about this or any other aspect of Zotero, feel free to call me or email at any time.

RefWorks No Longer Works with the Catalog

If you want to save/export citations from the catalog, you’ll want to do so using OneSearch instead, as the RefWorks export from the catalog no longer works. The CUNY Office of Library Services says it is unlikely there will be a way to fix this problem.

Another option that offers students more flexibility in the long run is to suggest Zotero instead, which still works fine with the catalog as well as OneSearch and all of our bibliographic databases (and Amazon, nytimes.com, Wikipedia, etc.).

New Interface for ScienceDirect

Today, ScienceDirect has gone live with a new interface. Here’s what Elsevier highlights as the biggest changes:

Thoroughly user-tested, ScienceDirect has been upgraded to make it easier to find relevant articles and books, read an article online, discover open access content and export to Mendeley.

The new release has four key upgrades:

  • A simplified user experience, with less visual clutter and improved design
  • Better visibility of open access content
  • Quicker discovery of relevant ScienceDirect content from search engines
  • Seamless export of citations and full-text articles to Mendeley

A note about Elsevier’s spotlighting Mendeley: Elsevier acquired that citation management system a year ago, which is why they’re focusing on it here. Export to Zotero and RefWorks are equally easy to use.

New Desktop Client for Zotero

Zotero has long been my favorite tool for citation management. Sitting within my Firefox browser, this free tool made it dead simple to add citations from databases and selected websites as I surfed and searched. Now, Zotero has a desktop client that lets you access your citations from an interface independent of Firefox. Even better, there are now plugins for a few other browsers (Google Chrome and Safari) that let you save citations and send them to the desktop client. Zotero also offers connectors for Microsoft Word and OpenOffice so you can cite while you write.

If anyone really wants to get serious about Zotero, feel free to borrow my copy of Jason Puckett’s brand new book from ALA, Zotero: A Guide for Librarians, Researchers, and Educators.