Zotero not downloading PDF after Library update

JodyOdes

Hi there,
Yorkville University (an online university based in Canada) recently updated the "discovery" feature and now Zotero no longer finds and stores a PDF document as part of the "add to zotero" process. Forgive my language in all of this, I am not savvy with all the lingo here!

from the library website: "Discovery is a search engine that searches our entire collection. Although the service is provided by EBSCO, it searches ‘all resources’… ProQuest, SAGE, EBSCO…and all formats…ebooks, videos, journals, etc. This is your best first step in investigating a topic."

Is there any hope of this being addressed somehow? There is a workaround, (manually downloading and attaching file to listing in Zotero), but it adds extra steps that my ADHD brain often gets lost or forgets to do.

Any tips or updates most welcome!
Happy to answer more questions if needed...

Cheers
JM

dstillman

I'm not really sure what you mean here. Zotero can automatically save PDFs on many academic sites, but it depends entirely on the site. If you're not getting a PDF somewhere you would expect it, we'd need an example URL.

JodyOdes

Thanks for the reply :)

This link might be behind a paywall (AKA university tuition), but here is an example of an link where Zotero does not grab the PDF to store:

https://discovery.ebsco.com/c/4ax45t/viewer/pdf/ui7nf4fxtj