How to get all chapters of a book from different authors into Zotero?

AlexBauert
I buy a book and there are 22 chapters from different authors.

Is there a way to catch them all together?

I know, I can get the book as a whole from library website into Zotero and then change it into the a chapter of a book and fill in titel, author(s) and pages. Then duplicate and change author(s), titel of the chapter and pages. 22 times. Not a real pleasure.

In digitale times: How can I have these easier?
Acutal exemple: Meaning, Mortality, and Choice, ed. Shaver n'Mikulincer

Second question: I want to connect all the chapters as I can connect articles in Zotero. How is it possible to connect them all at once?
I use an empty folder in the library and at the end I choose the first and connect it to all. This I do with all of them. Also here: Lots of repeating work that could be easier to do.

thx for ideas.
Alex Bauert
  • bwiernik
    Many publishers have separate pages for chapters. If they do, import from there. Each chapter might also have its own DOI, you can import each using the magic wand tool.

    If not, the Zutilo plugin adds an option to “Create Book Section from book item” to the right click menu. You can import the book, then use that to make a chapter, then add the title, authors, and pages.

    The Zutilo plugin also adds a right-click option to Relate selected items, so you can select all of the chapters and overall book for the book, right click, and relate them all.
  • adamsmith
    To give you an example of what you can do with this particularly book (as bwiernik says, this varies greatly by book & publisher):
    The Table of Contents is available on APA's PsycInfo: https://psycnet.apa.org/PsycBOOKS/toc/13748

    If you click through to the individual chapters, you can see their DOIs, which are numbered consecutively:
    chapter 1 is 10.1037/13748-001
    chapter 2 is 10.1037/13748-002
    chapter 22 is 10.1037/13748-022

    You can use Excel to super quickly create a full list of DOIs (paste the first one into a cell and drag down to auto-complete):
    10.1037/13748-001
    10.1037/13748-002
    10.1037/13748-003
    10.1037/13748-004
    10.1037/13748-005
    10.1037/13748-006
    10.1037/13748-007
    10.1037/13748-008
    10.1037/13748-009
    10.1037/13748-010
    10.1037/13748-011
    10.1037/13748-012
    10.1037/13748-013
    10.1037/13748-014
    10.1037/13748-015
    10.1037/13748-016
    10.1037/13748-017
    10.1037/13748-018
    10.1037/13748-019
    10.1037/13748-020
    10.1037/13748-021
    10.1037/13748-022

    And then just copy&paste that whole block into the add-by-identifier (magic wand) field in Zotero.

    Again, how and whether this works is very specific to the book in question. For other books (e.g. most books published by Cambridge or Springer or on Project Muse or JSTOR), Zotero will let you directly import all chapters using the folder icon of Zotero's browser connector . For others yet, manual entry is your only option.
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