{"id":61,"date":"2007-04-02T15:13:32","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T19:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/making-better-use-of-zoteros-locate-button\/"},"modified":"2007-04-02T15:13:32","modified_gmt":"2007-04-02T19:13:32","slug":"making-better-use-of-zoteros-locate-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/making-better-use-of-zoteros-locate-button\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Better Use of Zotero&#8217;s &#8220;Locate&#8221; Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The button in the upper right-hand corner of the information tab (the right column) uses a technology called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niso.org\/committees\/committee_ax.html\">OpenURL<\/a> to try to find a Zotero item in your local library (either in its physical collection or in one of the full-text databases it subscribes to). The link from citation to resource resolves differently for different users: using OpenURL, a scholar affiliated with George Mason University, for example, clicks through to a copy of the resource available through her institution; a scholar affiliated with University of Michigan clicks through to a copy available through his.<\/p>\n<p>You can configure Zotero to find full-text resources through your local institution by clicking the gear icon above the left pane of your Zotero window, selecting Preferences, and manually substituting your library&#8217;s link resolver for the default George Mason resolver under OpenURL.<\/p>\n<p>Although CHNM will eventually offer a startup wizard that will help you find your local OpenURL server, you can also check to see if Zotero can locate other (non-GMU) OpenURL servers by opening the Preferences panel and clicking on &#8220;Search for resolvers.&#8221; If an entry other than Custom appears, Zotero has found another possible OpenURL server (i.e., your computer lies within a range of IP addresses that are able to use another institution&#8217;s OpenURL server).<\/p>\n<p>Having configured your link resolver, either manually or automatically, you can then select a reference in your Zotero library and go directly to a copy of it by clicking on the Locate button in the right pane of your Zotero window (make sure the Info tab is active). Assuming your library has a subscription to a database service that provides full-text access to that resource, you can then automatically retrieve it via OpenURL.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/~cengel\/cgi-bin\/anthrospace\/how-to-make-zotero-search-full-text-citations-at-stanford\">Stanford University<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.umich.edu\/exploratory\/pdfs\/zotero.pdf\">University of Michigan<\/a> have both published online instructions for configuring Zotero to use their respective link servers. For directories of other OpenURL resolvers, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/curtis.med.yale.edu\/unalog-trac\/wiki\/OpenurlResolverTable\">OpenURL Resolver Table<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/openurl.ac.uk\/doc\/\">OpenURL Router<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oclc.org\/productworks\/urlresolver.htm\">OCLC OpenURL Resolver Registry<\/a>. If you&#8217;re a librarian or information technologist who has published an OpenURL address for your institution and explained how to use it in conjunction with Zotero, please let us know in <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.zotero.org\/discussion\/414\/how-to-custom-the-resolver\/\">this thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The button in the upper right-hand corner of the information tab (the right column) uses a technology called OpenURL to try to find a Zotero item in your local library (either in its physical collection or in one of the full-text databases it subscribes to). The link from citation to resource resolves differently for different [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zotero.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}