Using Citation Managers with LibKey and BrowZine

One of the advantages of using BrowZine’s Export Citation feature is that no additional proxy configuration is required in Zotero because a BrowZine URL is included with the article’s citation details. The BrowZine URL will inherit any authentication settings that we have on file (ex. EZProxy, OpenAthens URL, IP/VPN authentication only, and more) for the institution. That means that if a user exports a citation from BrowZine into their Zotero library and they want to revisit the article later, they can double-click on the article title from their Zotero Web or Zotero Desktop app library and quickly connect to it in their organization’s library collections and *login with their institutional credentials if needed.

If you expand the “Info” panel for the selected title in your Zotero library to view and/or edit the citation details, the BrowZine URL may look like this:

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For the selected article, click the Share feature and select Zotero from the list of Bibliographic Management tools. If not already logged in, a Zotero account login prompt will appear.

Zotero Web:

• Login to Zotero Web, navigate to your Web Library. The newly exported record should appear right away.

  • If it doesn’t show up within a minute or two, try refreshing the Zotero page.

Zotero Desktop:

• Open the application, navigate to your My Library. The newly exported record should appear right away.

  • If it doesn’t show up within a minute or two, try refreshing the data by clicking the green arrow in the upper right corner of the library window to sync with http://zotero.org .

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BrowZine Web

For the selected article, click the Export Citation feature and select Mendeley. If not already logged in, a Mendeley login prompt may appear. The newly exported citation should appear in your library and a message may appear in BrowZine to confirm it was successful.

BrowZine App

For the selected article, click the Share feature and select Mendeley from the list of Bibliographic Management tools. If not already logged in, a Mendeley account login prompt will appear.

Mendeley Web

• Login to Mendeley, navigate to your Library. The newly exported record should appear right away.

  • If it doesn’t show up within a minute or two, try refreshing the Mendeley page.

Mendeley Reference Manager Desktop Application

• Open the application and navigate to All References or Recently Added.

  • If it doesn’t appear, you may want to check your sync status and refresh the data.

BrowZine Web

For the selected article, click the Export Citation feature and select BibTex. In a moment, a BIB file should automatically download to your device.

In the BIB file, the BrowZine article URL value will appear in the url field.