A tutorial on setting up Zotero to work with the link resolver at Hunter College. It assumes familiarity with the installation of Zotero

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Setting Up Zotero to Find Full Text at Hunter
Libraries
John Pell
Assistant Professor
Hunter College Libraries

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Overview of what’s in this Tutorial:
 Link
Resolvers: The concept and technology
behind linking to full text from a database
record.
 ModifyingZotero’s Settings to use Hunter
College’s Link Resolver.

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Link Resolvers
Connecting to the full text of articles

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Link Resolvers:
You may have noticed this little
“Find it!” button in online
databases. It is what we call a
“link resolver.”

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Link Resolvers:
Clicking the link resolver will
take you to a page with options
for finding full text of the record.
This is accomplished through a
Technology called “Open URL.”

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Hunter’s Link Resolver
This bit in the address bar is
the URL for Hunter’s Link
Resolver Service. We will use
that to set up Zotero.

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Modifying Zotero’s Settings
Customize your experience for efficiency!

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Setting Up Zotero:
To set up Zotero to use
Hunter’s link resolver, open
Zotero preferences.

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Setting Up Zotero:
In the “Advanced” menu you
will find the option to put in the
URL for Hunter’s Resolver in
the “OpenURL” section.
(The text that goes in here is on
the next slide for you to copy
and paste. )

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Setting Up Zotero:
 Here is the text to put in the “Resolver” field:
http://p9003-sfx.cuny.edu.proxy.wexler.hunter.cuny.edu/sfx_local

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Setting Up Zotero:
You can now use the “Locate”
button to perform a “Library
LookUp” and locate full text for
the records in your Zotero
database.

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That’s it! I hope this has helped.