Benefit of snapshots of journal article listing webpage
When I create journal article items, from a database or journal website, using the browser bar utility, Zotero will also attach a snapshot of the page. Is there any merit in saving webpage snapshot for journal articles? I am thinking of deleting all such snapshots in my library (over 1,000), but want to know if I am overlooking some future benefit of keeping the snapshots. Note, I am talking ONLY about snapshots for journal articles.
I have disabled auto PDF download for various reasons but let snapshots remain because for some webpages I prefer having a snapshot since there is no guarantee that page will be around next year. For journal articles, the way I see it, a snapshot of the webpage where the particular article is listed is almost meaningless because the articles are referenced through volumes, series, and/or DOIs.
I have disabled auto PDF download for various reasons but let snapshots remain because for some webpages I prefer having a snapshot since there is no guarantee that page will be around next year. For journal articles, the way I see it, a snapshot of the webpage where the particular article is listed is almost meaningless because the articles are referenced through volumes, series, and/or DOIs.
I understand there is no automated or semi-automated way to delete snapshots for journal articles and I have to expand each article and use the "Move Item to Trash" from right-click menu, right? Can I assign the keyboard shortcut to avoid the right-click and select step?
I tried an advanced search for "Item Type is Journal Article" and "Attachment File Type is Web Page", but cannot find a way to show only the child items.
1) Create one saved search with [Item Type] [is] [Journal Article] and "Include parent and child items of matching items" checked.
2) Create another saved search with three conditions: [Saved Search] [is] [name of first search], [Attachment File Type] [is] [Web Page], and [Title] [does not contain] ["link"].
The second search should then match only snapshots (and links, which you may actually want to keep) for only journal articles, and you can use Select All and move all the snapshots to the trash at once (perhaps after manually deselecting some, such as links).
FYI, 99% of my journal article items have a link to a PDF of the article. I do not directly attach the PDF file.
But if you're getting no results, I think you're doing something wrong. I have this working.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9roN3pm2S3hcWpXZjJrQ0pidVU/view?usp=sharing
Fixed the error and it is working now. Thanks, Dan!
May be I can first find items with PDF link attachment and assign a tag and then include a test for tag in the second search?
Edit: I already have a tag assigned to all items for which a PDF is not yet available. May be I can use that?