PMID, PMCID in "Extra" column

lopezcruzan

For several years now, I have been able to quickly display the PMID, and PMCID, number in the "Extra" column. These numbers are essential to know if a publication is peer-reviewed and in Compliance with NIH mandates for grants.

Now, the new update does not display any of those numbers when I add the "Extra" column.

How can I display these two numbers so they appear fast in Zotero. I have a multitude of publications for several principal investigators.

Thank you

dstillman

PMID and PMCID are now real Zotero fields, so the identifiers have moved there. Those fields aren't currently available as columns, since we generally limit columns to human-readable fields. If you want to find items without those values, you can use an empty "does not contain" condition in a saved search. (We'll be adding a more explicit way to search for empty fields in Zotero 10.)

adamsmith

You can't display them in a column (Extra was always a shaky way of doing that since it also took other values).

You can, otoh, much more ready filter for the presence/absence of these variables using advanced search (and saved searches if you want to).

E.g.
PMID -- contains -- [empty field]

Shows all item with a PMID

PMID -- does not contain -- [empty field]

Shows all items without a PMID

(If you use the Zotero Beta version 10+, this works even more smoothly because Advanced search now works like a filter on the main view)

Does that work for your use case? If not, what exactly would you need?

lopezcruzan

Thank you very much, dstillman. I see the numbers automatically appear when I create my desired bibliography. This is a wonderful update.

Thanks a lot again.

lopezcruzan

Thank you also to you, Adam.