Zotero Doesn't Auto-Add Tags when Adding Articles by Identifier

drchicken
I often use the magic wand button to "add item(s) by identifier" and paste in a DOI link. The article and PDF are correctly imported but the item is not automatically tagged according to its keywords. "Automatically tag items" is selected in my preferences. Is this a bug?
  • adamsmith
    Not a bug, no -- CrossRef (where most of the DOI metadata comes from) doesn't provide keywords/tags
  • drchicken
    Okay. Thanks. How can I add an article and have it be automatically tagged?
  • adamsmith
    Depends on you subject area. Pubmed has the most standardized tags. Beyond that, importing from publisher commonly, but not always, includes tags and it's not always clear which vocabulary those follow
  • drchicken
    Okay. Thanks. I cannot get tags to reliably auto populate even with PDFs from PubMed. Oh well.
  • adamsmith
    No, don't import PDFs directly -- that'll in the best case just give you the same DOI-based metadata. You want to import directly from Pubmed either via PMID or via the Save to Zotero icon.
  • drchicken
    Ah, I see now. I had tried the Chrome extension on PMC full-texts but not on PubMed. PMIDs and the Chrome Extension on PubMed both give tags. Thank you!
  • adamsmith
    Ah -- we should really get tags for PMC, too, we'll see what we can do about that.
  • drchicken
    That'd be great. Since almost all articles have DOIs attached if there was a way to link DOIs and PMID's tags could be gathered for articles regardless of entry method.
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