Automatically download and attach pdf

rese

Hi

I just discovered zotero: fantastic!
Now I have a bunch of BibTeX files that I just imported as my personal Library in zotero. I would now like to import the pdf files in an easy way and attach them.
Is there an easy way to do this (by e.g. assigning a server and format so that it looks for it automatically starting from an entry in Zotero?) or do I really have to search for the data on the web, entry per entry, and attach the downloaded file? (I am thinking of a right-click action for example...).
Same question for just downloading the abstract of each journal article.

thanks in advance for any help there!

Tjowens

Zotero's BibTex import can bring in attached PDFs, they just need to be formatted like this.

In BibTex:
pdf={/full/path/to/file.pdf}

rese

thanks but I was thinking of something more powerful (and magic maybe..):

- you have a BibTeX imported entry in zotero
- you right click on it
- and you automatically download the corresponding pdf file from some predefined server/site..

Is this possible?

mark

Not entirely, because this obviously depends on the magic power of this "predefined server/site". How is Zotero to know which PDF it should download from where?

However, the 'Locate' button may be of help here - see documentation and known resolvers. This may help you to find repositories in which your reference is contained. If you have fulltext access to the repositories, you will be able to download the PDF.