Exporting Meta Data

asj.berte.vanderwatt
I am currently experiencing problems exporting the meta-data from the PDF articles in my library.

I keep getting an error code indicating the I have reached my Google Scholar query limit. Can someone please help me and tell me either:

1. how I increase my Google Scholar Query Limit?
2. is there any other way in which I can retrieve the meta-data for referencing purposes?
  • adamsmith
    1. you can't -- if you can switch to a different internet connection that would typically help, otherwise you have to wait, usually a day.
    You could also try manually searching through google scholar and see if that offers you a captcha to

    2. not from PDFs -- you can use general web import to import items, obviously:
    https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library
  • asj.berte.vanderwatt
    Thank you.

    I see my fault now, I'm new to Zotero and tried to load about 600 articles in one day into the program.

    I guess it will take Google scholar a long time to "forgive" me for that.

    If it remains a problem, what do I do? Can I uninstall and try again but with much more caution?
  • adamsmith
    I don't think this will take particularly long, no, at least not in our experience. And re-installing won't help. What google remembers is your internet connection, not Zotero.
  • DWL-SDCA
    edited November 6, 2015
    That Google Scholar is wonderful is a given. However please know that GS is far from perfect. A substantial proportion of the records include incorrect metadata--wrong author names, wrong journal title(!), author names list incomplete or in the wrong order, etc. Zotero does a good job of accurately importing GS's inaccurate metadata. Once the metadata is in the Zotero user library it must be heavily verified and many records edited. Although GS itself provides ways to fetch their metadata, they freely admit that some of it is wrong. (see below)

    Google sees GS primarily as a means for users to find publications. Clicking on a link to a journal article will take you to the article on a publisher's website -- the correct one even for records where the directly downloaded GS metadata is flawed. From the publisher's website the correct metadata and (usually) the abstract may be obtained.

    Going from GS to publisher site requires more effort and time initially but time spent verifying and editing Zotero records is greatly reduced.

    My database directly cooperates with GS by providing metadata in each record header in a format specifically requested by Google. If GS changes the preferred format or if something goes awry in my system that moves records from the database to html for screen display, I hear from them every year or two both by email and by phone. For publishers that don't provide metadata in Google's requested format, GS uses other header data supplemented by information scraped from web pages and other sources.

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