Using Citation Managers with LibKey and BrowZine

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Exporting to Citation Managers from BrowZine/LibKey | Configuration of LibKey within Citation Managers

Exporting from LibKey or BrowZine to various citation managers

LibKey

The LibKey.io page doesn’t offer a quick export citation feature like BrowZine, but once a full text format option is selected (ex. ‘Article Link’ or ‘Download PDF’) you can often use the browser plugin for your citation manager to capture the metadata of the article page you’re viewing.

Zotero plugin: Zotero Connector

Mendeley plugin: Mendeley Web Importer

EndNote: EndNote Click

Citavi: Citavi Picker

Tip: Once added to your library, you can manually modify the URL field of the record details so the https://libkey.io/libraries/{Library_ID}/{article_doi} appears, if desired, as a way to easily access the article again.

Please consult your style guide when exporting and formatting citations.

BrowZine

BrowZine supports exporting to a variety of citation management systems. Click to expand for more details.

Zotero

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:

https://browzine.com/articles/########

 

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 .

Zotero library window open with sync option emphasized

Mendeley

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.

 

BibTex

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.

RefWorks

EndNote

Citavi

 


Configuration: Using LibKey as a link resolver in citation managers or to retrieve PDFs

Although LibKey is used as a link resolver in many popular databases and sites, it is not able to capture PDFs using a citation manager’s ‘find full text’ or ‘get PDF’ features. Manually attaching PDF files would be needed.