Zotero can be made to search the journals database at Central Michigan University. If you’re a Central Michigan University student with an appropriate login, you can use this feature to quickly find full-text articles through Zotero.
Zotero allows you to search a library catalogue directly from its interface. Click the Locate button for a journal article and Zotero, by default, takes you to WorldCat, a public service for searching multiple libraries.
Here’s where the Locate button is found, in the third, far-right panel of the Zotero interface in Firefox.
In order to search the Central Michigan University library with your student login, you need to change one of the preferences. From the ‘gear’ menu in Zotero, select Preferences.
Under the General tab, set the Resolver to the following URL: http://sfx5.exlibrisgroup.com:3210/cmich
Once this is set, the Locate button can be used to search the Central Michigan University journals database. Note that this only appears to work for journal articles at this time. Book searches don’t seem to work through this method.
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