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[Update, October 2022: You can now scan books using the188BET靠谱吗Zotero iOS app, so the iOS shortcut described here is no longer necessary.]

188BET靠谱吗Zotero makes it easy to collect research materials with a single click as you browse the web, but what do you do when you want to add a real, physical book to your Zotero library?

188BET靠谱吗If you have an iPhone or iPad running iOS 12, you can now save a book to Zotero just by scanning its barcode:

This feature takes advantage of the new Shortcuts functionality in iOS 12, which can chain together series of actions to perform tasks.

To get started, you'll first need to installApple's Shortcuts app, if you don't yet have it on your iPhone or iPad.

188BET靠谱吗Next, install the Scan Book to Zotero shortcut by tapping on the link below from your iPhone or iPad and selectingOpen in "Shortcuts":

Download Shortcut

Update, October 2019:In iOS 13, you need toenable "Allow Untrusted Shortcuts" in Settingsto install shortcuts from outside the Shortcuts app Gallery.As of iOS 13.1.2, it may be necessary to first download another shortcut from the Gallery before the option appears in Settings.

188BET靠谱吗After the shortcut opens, tap Done to close it, and then tap on the "Scan Book to Zotero" rectangle.188BET靠谱吗The first time you run it, you'll need to select "Run Shortcut" and grant the shortcut access to the camera, and you'll need to log into the Zotero website before you can save.(If you haven't yetset up syncing188BET靠谱吗with Zotero on your computer, you'll want to do that as well so that items you save will sync to Zotero on your computer.)

188BET靠谱吗Whenever you want to scan a book into Zotero, you can trigger the shortcut in a number of different ways:

• 188BET靠谱吗You can open the Shortcuts app and select Scan Book to Zotero.
• 188BET靠谱吗You can swipe right from the lock screen or home screen to open the Today View and select Scan Book to Zotero in the Shortcuts widget.If the Shortcuts widget doesn't appear or doesn't appear where you want it, you can add or move it via the Edit button at the bottom.
• 188BET靠谱吗If you have an iPhone that supports 3D Touch, you can hard-press on the Shortcuts app icon and select Scan Book to Zotero from the widget popup.
• 188BET靠谱吗You can say something like "Hey Siri, add this book to Zotero".188BET靠谱吗(Maybe don't use this one in the library.) To set a phrase for Siri, open the Shortcuts app, tap the three dots in the Scan Book to Zotero rectangle, tap the settings icon in the top right, and then tap Add to Siri and assign a phrase.In our testing, we found Siri support to still be a bit buggy in the current version of Shortcuts, so if Siri doesn't recognize your phrase, try editing the shortcut and re-recording the phrase or wait for an update from Apple.

Happy scanning!

P.S.If you don't use an iPhone or iPad, or you can't upgrade to iOS 12, you can still save a book from your phone when you're away from your computer by entering the ISBN manually.Simply bookmarkthis pageand load it whenever you need to add a physical book.

188BET靠谱吗We are excited to announce major improvements to the Zotero Connectors for Chrome and Safari.

Chrome

188BET靠谱吗The Zotero Connector for Chrome now includes functionality that was previously available only in Zotero for Firefox.

Automatic Institutional Proxy Detection

Many institutions provide a way to access electronic resources while you are off-campus by signing in to a web-based proxy system.188BET靠谱吗The Zotero Connector for Chrome makes this more convenient by automatically detecting your institutional proxy.Once you've accessed a site through the proxy, the connector will automatically redirect future requests to that site through the proxy (e.g., if you open a link to jstor.org, you'll be automatically redirected to jstor.org.proxy.my-university.edu).

Proxy detection does not require manual configuration.You can disable or customize it from the connector preferences.

Style Installation and Automatic File Importing

188BET靠谱吗Zotero for Firefox has long included support for installing citation styles and importing reference manager files such as BibTeX or RIS when opened in Firefox.188BET靠谱吗This functionality is now supported by the Zotero Connector for Chrome.

188BET靠谱吗Clicking on a link to a CSL file will display a prompt to install the style into Zotero.188BET靠谱吗Clicking on a BibTeX or RIS file that is served correctly by the website will prompt to import its data into Zotero.If you choose ‘Cancel', you can download the file normally.

188BET靠谱吗Note that this feature requires Zotero 5.0.

Upgrading

188BET靠谱吗If you have the latest version of Chrome installed, you should be automatically updated to version 5.0.5 or later of the Zotero Connector.188BET靠谱吗If you're not currently using Zotero with Chrome, you can install the extension from thedownloads page.188BET靠谱吗Make sure you've installed Zotero 5.0 as well for the best experience.

Safari

We've brought several features to Safari that were previously available only in Chrome and Firefox.

Streamlined Saving

188BET靠谱吗Previously, on pages where Zotero could not detect any high-quality data, the Zotero save button was inactive, and you could save a basic webpage item and snapshot by right-clicking on the page and selecting "Save Page to Zotero".188BET靠谱吗In the latest version of the Zotero Connector for Safari, it's possible to save any page to Zotero with the click of a button.

When high-quality data is available, the button will show the same icon as before: book, newspaper, etc.188BET靠谱吗On all other pages, you'll see an empty page icon, and clicking on it will create a basic webpage item and snapshot in Zotero.Hovering over the icon will tell you whichtranslator188BET靠谱吗, if any, Zotero would use to save the page.

One-click PDF saving

188BET靠谱吗You can also now save PDFs to Zotero with a single click.

188BET靠谱吗Previously, saving a PDF to Zotero from Safari required dragging from the address bar into Zotero or saving the PDF to disk and adding it to Zotero manually.188BET靠谱吗Now, when you're viewing a PDF in Safari, simply click the toolbar button to save the PDF as a top-level attachment in Zotero, after which you can use "Retrieve Metadata from PDF" or "Create Parent Item" to create a full bibliographic item.Note that, when possible, it's still preferable to save from a webpage with full metadata.

Secondary Translators

188BET靠谱吗On some webpages, Zotero can save data using multiple translators, but up until now it hasn't been possible to choose a secondary translator from Safari.You can now188BET靠谱吗long-press the Zotero button to see additional options for saving from the current page, including saving as a regular webpage instead of using a translator.

Secondary translators may provide different data for the page itself or data for other sources referenced in the page (for example, cited references on Wikipedia, as in the example above).

Upgrading

You can get the new version of the Safari extension from thedownloads pageor by updating to 5.0.0 or later from the Extensions pane of the Safari preferences.188BET靠谱吗Make sure you've installed Zotero 5.0 as well for the best experience.

188BET靠谱吗Zotero 4.0.27, now available, brings some major new features, as well as many other improvements and bug fixes.

188BET靠谱吗Streamlined saving (Zotero for Firefox)

188BET靠谱吗In Zotero for Firefox, it's now easier than ever to save items from webpages.

188BET靠谱吗Zotero senses information on webpages through bits of code calledsite translators, which work with most library catalogs, popular websites such as Amazon and the New York Times, and many gated databases.

188BET靠谱吗In the past, there have been two different ways of saving web sources to Zotero:

• 188BET靠谱吗If Zotero detected a reference on a webpage, you could click an icon in the address bar — for example, a book icon on Amazon or a journal article icon on a publisher's site — to save high-quality metadata for the reference to your Zotero library.
• 188BET靠谱吗If a site wasn't supported or a site translator wasn't working, you could still save any webpage to your Zotero library by clicking the "Create Web Page Item from Current Page" button in the Zotero for Firefox toolbar or by right-clicking on the page background and choosing "Save Page to Zotero".188BET靠谱吗In such cases, you might need to fill in some details that Zotero couldn't automatically detect.

188BET靠谱吗In Zotero 4.0.27,we've combined the address bar icon and the "Create Web Page Item from Current Page" button into a single save button188BET靠谱吗in the Firefox toolbar, next to the existing Z button for opening the Zotero pane.

The new save button on a New York Times article

188BET靠谱吗(Don't be confused by the book icon in the address bar in the top left — that's a new Firefox feature, unrelated to Zotero.)

You can click the new save button on any webpage188BET靠谱吗to create an item in your Zotero library, and Zotero will automatically use the best available method for saving data.If a translator is available, you'll get high-quality metadata!if not, you'll get basic info such as title, access date, and URL, and you can edit the saved item to add additional information from the webpage.188BET靠谱吗The icon will still update to show you what Zotero found on the page, and, as before, you can hover over it to see which translator, if any, will be used.

This also means that asingle shortcut key— Cmd+Shift+S (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+S (Windows/Linux) by default — can be used to save from any webpage.

The new save button also features adrop-down menu188BET靠谱吗for accessing additional functionality, such as choosing a non-default translator or looking up a reference in your local (physical) library without even saving it to Zotero.

Additional save options

(This functionality was previously available by right-clicking on the address bar icon, though if you knew that, you surely qualify for some sort of prize.) The new menu will be used for more functionality in the future, so stay tuned.

Prefer another layout?188BET靠谱吗In addition to the new combined toolbar buttons, Zotero provides separate buttons for opening Zotero and saving sources that can be added using Firefox'sCustomize mode.

Custom button layout

With the separate buttons, you can hide one or the other button and rely on a keyboard shortcut, move the buttons into the larger Firefox menu panel, or even move the new save button between the address bar and search bar, close to its previous position.(Since the new save button works on every page, it no longer makes sense for it to be within the address bar itself, but by using the separate buttons you can essentially recreate the previous layout.)

188BET靠谱吗While all the above changes apply only to Zotero for Firefox for now,similar changes will come to the Chrome and Safari connectors188BET靠谱吗for Zotero Standalone users in a future version.188BET靠谱吗For now, Zotero Standalone users can continue to use the address bar (Chrome) or toolbar (Safari) icon to save recognized webpages and right-click (control-click on Macs) on the page background and choose "Save Page to Zotero" to save basic info for any other page.

Easier bibliography language selection

188BET靠谱吗Making Zotero accessible to users around the world has always been a priority.188BET靠谱吗Thanks to a global community of volunteers in the Zotero and Citation Style Language (CSL) projects, you can use the Zotero interface and also generate citations in dozens of different languages.

Now, thanks to community developersRintze ZelleandAurimas Vinckevicius,it's much easier to switch between different languageswhen generating citations.

188BET靠谱吗Previously, Zotero would automatically use the language of the Zotero user interface — generally the language of either Firefox or the operating system — when generating citations.While you've always been able to generate citations using a different language, doing so required changing a hidden preference.

You can now set the bibliography language at the same time you choose a citation style, whether you're using Quick Copy, Create Bibliography from Selected Items, or the word processor plugins.

Choosing a bibliography language for Quick Copy

In the above example, even though the user interface is in English, the default Quick Copy language is being set to French.188BET靠谱吗If an item is then dragged from Zotero into a text field, the resulting citation will be in French, using French terms instead of English ones (e.g., "édité par" instead of "edited by").

The new language selector is even more powerful when using the word processor plugins.The bibliography language chosen for a document is stored in the document preferences, allowing you touse different languages in different documents— say, U.S.English for a document you're submitting to an American journal and Japanese for a paper for a conference in Japan.

Note that, of thethousands of CSL styles188BET靠谱吗that Zotero supports, not all can be localized.If a journal or style guide calls for a specific language, the language drop-down will be disabled and citations will always be generated using the required language.188BET靠谱吗For example, selecting the Nature style will cause Zotero to use the "English (UK)" locale in all cases, as is required by Nature's style guide.

Other changes

188BET靠谱吗Zotero now offers an "Export Library…" option for group libraries, allowing the full collection hierarchy to be easily exported.If you find yourself facing many sync conflicts, you can now choose to resolve all conflicts with changes from one side or the other.188BET靠谱吗For Zotero Standalone users, we've improved support for saving attachments from Chrome and Safari on many sites, bringing site compatibility closer to that of Zotero for Firefox.And we've resolved various issues that were preventing complete syncs for some people.

There's too much else to discuss here, but see thechangelogfor the full list of changes.

Get it now

188BET靠谱吗If you're already using Zotero, your copy of Zotero should update to the new version automatically, or you can update manually from the Firefox Add-ons pane or by selecting the "Check for Updates" menu option in Zotero Standalone.188BET靠谱吗If you're not yet using Zotero,try it outtoday.

188BET靠谱吗Over the past few weeks, a spate of paid and free Android and iPhone apps have appeared that extend and enrich the Zotero research ecosystem.Here are four of the most exciting mobile applications now available:

Zandy

Zandy188BET靠谱吗is well on its way to being the first full-featured mobile Zotero application for Android devices.188BET靠谱吗Users can currently edit and view their Zotero libraries, add new items, and work offline.Future releases promise even more functionality.

188BET靠谱吗Scanner for Zotero

188BET靠谱吗Scanner for Zotero188BET靠谱吗lets you add books to your Zotero library from anywhere, with no need to have Zotero installed anywhere.188BET靠谱吗Simply scan a book's ISBN barcode with your Android phone, and the software will add the book to your Zotero library directly on our servers.

BibUp

BibUp188BET靠谱吗allows iPhone users to add books to their Zotero libraries much like Scanner for Zotero, and it also provides the additional functionality of photographing specific pages to be collected, on which BibUp will even perform OCR.

ZotFile

ZotFile Reader188BET靠谱吗eases the transfer of Zotero-based PDFs to and from mobile readers like Android devices and the iPad.It builds on the success of the originalZotFile188BET靠谱吗extension, which significantly enhances Zotero's built-in PDF management by automating the attachment of PDFs to Zotero items, and the renaming of those files according to user-configurable rules.Thelatest beta versionof ZotFile combines all of this functionality into a single extension.

188BET靠谱吗As amazing as these projects are, the traffic on the Zotero developers mailing list suggests that we can expect even more exciting developments in the near future!