Upgrade StorageAuthors and Dates on Chrome Extension
Hi there,
I'm a public school teacher and I've been unrolling Zotero to my students.
We all have district-issued Chromebooks, so we use the Zotero Chrome Extension.
I've noticed that, for the majority of the time, when saving a website to Zotero, the date and author(s) are not included in the information that is compiled - thus leading to a few extra steps of properly citing (manually adding the info).
I ran a test with Google Citation on the same websites - and it did pick up the author and date.
Maybe it's a bug, maybe it's just us - just wanted to let people know.
I'm a public school teacher and I've been unrolling Zotero to my students.
We all have district-issued Chromebooks, so we use the Zotero Chrome Extension.
I've noticed that, for the majority of the time, when saving a website to Zotero, the date and author(s) are not included in the information that is compiled - thus leading to a few extra steps of properly citing (manually adding the info).
I ran a test with Google Citation on the same websites - and it did pick up the author and date.
Maybe it's a bug, maybe it's just us - just wanted to let people know.
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dstillmanedited June 13, 2022That's entirely based on the site you're saving from, so we can't say more without example URLs. Zotero saves high-quality metadata on a vast array of sites, but there are certainly sites where you'll need to correct or insert some metadata manually. See Translators to understand this better.