Giving access to "My [Entire] Library" to a book manuscript co-author?

plindset
I have been co-authoring a book and have been handling the citations via My Library in Zotero. The book involves well in excess of a thousand citations, all intermixed in My Library, which would make it very difficult to create a separate "group" library. Out of abundance of caution, I want to give my co-author access to "My [Entire] Library" rather than try to construct a "group" library. Is there a way to do this?
  • dstillman
    No, other than by sharing your username/password, which you obviously shouldn't do.

    In an upcoming version, we'll be introducing a tool to make it possible to move/relink citations and their associated items in a document to another library. That would be the solution here. Currently, creating a group library would create unrelated items that wouldn't be linked to the citations in the document, so it's best to start in a group library from the beginning if you'll be collaborating.
  • plindset
    Is there a way to have an off-line discussion about this?
  • adamsmith
    No, this is where all support happens. Why would a discussion need to be offline?
  • jdlea
    If you have some Word macro skills, I posted a macro at https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/465655/#Comment_465655 that might help (save a backup first!). You can use it by inserting citations to every item in the new group library (created from your library) at the end of the document (use multiple source citations from the old-style insert dialog - this should result in twice as many listed items in the bibliography), running the macro, and removing the added citations once it is done. You can get our group library number from the field codes of the fake citations you add to tweak the macro or from the URL if you access the group library via the web. However, I've never tried it with that many citations. Maybe do them in batches of a few hundred if it doesn't work all at once.
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