
However, when viewing or manipulating the attachments from outside of Zotero, you may run into the following problem: when looking at a given file, how do you find out which Zotero entry it belongs to?Įnter Zowie (a loose acronym for " Zotero link wr it er", and pronounced like the interjection). For example, if you're a DEVONthink user, you will at some point discover the power of indexing your local Zotero database from DEVONthink. When using Zotero, you may on occasion want to work with PDF files and other attachment files outside of Zotero.

In the image above you can see a blog post, a book, a chapter/selection from a book, a conference paper, a dictionary entry, an entry in an encyclopedia, a film, an interview script, articles, a magazine article, a file from an archive, newspaper article, a podcast, a report, a legal document, a doctorate and a documentary.Zowie (" Zotero link wr it er") is a command-line program for macOS that writes Zotero select links into the file attachments contained in a Zotero database. Icons will also appear in your personal library and are a useful way of determining the type of reference you have downloaded. If for instance, you are looking at a list of references, Zotero will display a folder if you are looking at an article, the icon will change to one that looks like a page from a journal article and if you are looking at a book, it will have an icon that looks like a book. This icon will change depending on what you are looking at on the web. Once you have downloaded the Connector, you will see an icon appear on your browser's toolbar. Zotero will recognise the web browser you are using but it is available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge. If you have authenticated with your UCL username and password, via Single Sign-on, Zotero will download both the bibliographic information and the full text of a journal article. The Zotero 'Connector will allow you to download bibliographic information or 'metadata' from the UCL's library catalogue, Explore, databases and webpages.
