Search PubMed
It would be most helpful to be able to search PubMed (or other similar libraries, I'm most concerned by PubMed) by keywords or authors etc directly from Zotero and be able to include references selected from the results of that search in the library. That's an important feature when one is writing a paper or is doing a bibliographic search and it would contribute greatly to generalize the use of Zotero. Sorry if that request have already been formulated and I've missed it...
Jean-Paul Herman
Jean-Paul Herman
Just as a practical matter I (who couldn't care less about pubmed) would find it annoying to have privileged support for it, in the same way that you would be find it annoying if Zotero privileged my sources.
I agree that the benefit of having an in-Zotero search would be fairly small, but I personally wouldn't be opposed to having a universal search across multiple data sources (similar to the firefox searchbox or LibX, either of which might provide Jean-Paul with something he wants). I also agree that, if development costs are used to make it, it should be generic (to allow many search providers, using OpenSearch or similar).
What I'd really like is to give Zotero a word document or text file full of such references, and have it parse them and import them, and then insert a bibliography into a document that had them alphabetized. That would be awesome. I'm combining 4 of my progress reports into a thesis, and the references are in a variety of formats.
http://www.zotero.org/support/kb/importing_formatted_bibliographies
(though I think WizFolio actually queries pubmed, so it might work especially well for this).
I don't know the Endnote search interface for pubmed, but I don't really see how it would/could be much faster than going through the web interface - could you describe how that actually works?
I mean, if you're really wedded to how this is done in Endnote, by all means, stay with Endnote, but have you actually tried doing this in Zotero?