Adding Items to Zotero provides detailed explanations on how to bring in different sources to your Zotero program. Below, are steps for three common and easy ways, using EBSCOhost for an example.
The instructions below are for creating an RSS feed in PubMed and ProQuest. Check other platforms for RSS Feed instructions. For more information and online Zotero documentation visit Feeds.
Step 1. Enter your search terms in PubMed and click Search. (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) . (A proxy URL may not work)
On the results page, select Create RSS link, located below the search box.
Step 2. Enter a name. You will overwrite existing text. Name cannot include a symbol.
Leave the number of items to be shown as is or change. Click Create RSS.
Step 3. Click "Copy" to copy the RSS URL
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Step 4. Go to Zotero desktop and click on dark brown folder and select "New Feed" and "From URL".
Step 5. Paste the RSS URL from PubMed into the top URL box. If you are successful, the Title box will show the name that you had created. Click Save. If you do not see anything in the Title, and you see proxy in the URL, try the search at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ without a proxy.
Step 1. Enter your search terms in ProQuest and click Search. On the results page, below the search box, toward the right, select "Save Search/alert link and select Create RSS feed.
Step 2. Enter a name in the "Name this Feed" box. You will overwrite existing text. You can leave the other settings as is or change. Click Create Feed.
Step 3. Copy the URL from "Your RSS feed" at the very top.
Step 4. Go to Zotero desktop and click on dark brown folder and select "New Feed" and "From URL".
Step 5. Paste URL into the top URL box. If you are successful, the Title box will show the name that you had created. Click Save.