Upgrade StorageRead only version of Zotero on an Intranet page
Hi,
I work in the Library of a publishing company. For the last 5 years we have been accumulating a large collection of research reports which currently are stored in a local server, organized through folders. We currently receive individual requests
Our plan is to create a digital and searchable repository of research reports, make it public on the intranet of our organisation so that others can access it to run their own searches and find the reports they need.
An absolute requirement is to make it ‘read only’ for multiple users accessing it at the same time.
We thought that the best and most straight forward way it would be adding the link to our Zotero account on the intranet, provide login details to this single account so that they can access it. However what we don’t know, is how to make it ‘read only’ as we don’t want for other users to make any changes to it or even delete reports.
Can we do this with Zotero? If so, how can it be done?
Many thanks,
David
I work in the Library of a publishing company. For the last 5 years we have been accumulating a large collection of research reports which currently are stored in a local server, organized through folders. We currently receive individual requests
Our plan is to create a digital and searchable repository of research reports, make it public on the intranet of our organisation so that others can access it to run their own searches and find the reports they need.
An absolute requirement is to make it ‘read only’ for multiple users accessing it at the same time.
We thought that the best and most straight forward way it would be adding the link to our Zotero account on the intranet, provide login details to this single account so that they can access it. However what we don’t know, is how to make it ‘read only’ as we don’t want for other users to make any changes to it or even delete reports.
Can we do this with Zotero? If so, how can it be done?
Many thanks,
David
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However, sharing user/password credentials is a pretty poor solution...especially if any of your users already use Zotero or if it is used very broadly & people may end up changing account information accidentally or maliciously. Depending on how you implement this, it might be construed as a violation of the terms of service. Instead, you should probably let people apply to join the group with their own accounts.
Depending on the particular nature of the reports and your organizational requirements, you may or may not be better off using a program that was purpose-built to be used for institutional repositories instead.
Create a private group, move all content over, restrict add/editing items to group administrators under group settings and you should have everything you want. This would still sit on the Zotero server and not your intranet, but you can restrict access to those you invite and it doesn't sound like there's anything super-sensitive in there.
If you wanted to, you could even have the login for one group member available on the intranet.