"Find available PDF" option not showing

georgedamian78
I just started using Zotero 5.0, I inserted manually some journal articles references and when I right click on them don`t have the option "Find available PDF". Am I missing something?
  • adamsmith
    They need a DOI or URL for this to work.
  • dstillman
    edited October 29, 2019
    The item needs to have a DOI or URL, and it won't appear if there's already a PDF attached to the item.

    (Also, when you say that you're adding items manually, do you mean by using New Item and manually typing in all the info? Because that's almost never necessary. See Adding Items to Zotero.)
  • georgedamian78
    Yup, just typing all the info. I have to deal with a bunch of articles from old journals, seems there is no other option.
  • dstillman
    edited October 29, 2019
    And there's no record of those journals online anywhere?

    If the journals aren't online to begin with, they're not going to have a DOI or URL and not going to have a PDF to automatically retrieve.
  • georgedamian78
    Old Romanian journals about medieval history, not online, at least not in an organised fashion. There are some, here and there, but no DOI. I thought that maybe Zotero performs a search based on the title or author manually introduced.
  • dstillman
    No, but even if it did, there wouldn't be anywhere to get the PDF from.

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