How do I get rid of pubmed entries so I can read my pdfs in Papership?

aostling

When downloading articles from PNAS, Zotero saves a Pubmed snapshot and this throws off Papership so that I cannot read the pdf on my iPad. How can I fix this? I cannot seem to delete the Pubmed entry in the Zotero item for the paper. My only work around so far is to make a separate Zotero entry to associate with the pdf.

adamsmith

1) You can just delete the pubmed entry (since they're all named the same, you can also search for them and bulk delete them using a saved search). How have you tried deleting them?
2) I wonder if we should still save the PM entry (which isn't a snapshot, just a link), given that we are saving the PMID in the extra field @dstillman @zuphilip thoughts? (Example: http://www.pnas.org/content/104/50/20084.short )

zuphilip

@adamsmith I would still save a snapshot/link to PubMed when the translator is called at the PubMed website directly, but everywhere else it should be enough to save the PMID in the extra (or perspectively in a separate field, which then can provide some linking features as the doi field).

adamsmith

Yes, agree with that -- also with the idea that as soon as we have a PMID field we can use that to link.

aostling

I have tried to delete them from the specific items. I remember that working in the more distant past, but in the past week or so it seems I cannot. I have tried deleting by highlighting the PubMed entry within the item, and then hitting the delete key. Nothing happens. I have also tried going to the Edit menu when it is highlighted. Deleting does not seem to be an option when I do that.

I am not following you on how I could do the bulk delete. Could you give a bit more detailed instructions?

Thanks!!

adamsmith

One item: right-click --> Move item to Trash or shift+delete (modifier key might be different on Mac)

All items:
Advanced Search
match all
Attachment File Type -- is -- Web Page
Title -- is -- PubMed entry

--> Save Search

Then go to the saved search at the bottom of the left-hand panel, select all (ctrl+a / cmd+a). Note that only the linked pubmed entries are selected. Delete using shift+delete or right-click --> move item to trash

aostling

Thanks--that did the trick!