You can then right-click on the PDF in Zotero and choose either “Retrieve Metadata for PDF” or “Create Parent Item” to create a full bibliographic item. Now, when you’re viewing a PDF in Chrome, simply click the new toolbar button to save the PDF as a top-level attachment in Zotero. Previously, saving a PDF to Zotero from Chrome required dragging from the address bar into Zotero or saving the PDF to disk and adding it to Zotero manually. You can also now save PDFs to Zotero with a single click: If you’d prefer to hide the new icon, the same options are available by right-clicking on the page background. Secondary translators may provide different data for the page itself or data for other sources referenced in the page (for example by DOI, as in the Wikipedia example above). You can now right-click (ctrl-click on a Mac) on the new save button to see additional options for saving from the current page, including saving as a regular webpage instead of using a translator. On some webpages, Zotero can save data using multiple translators, but up until now it hasn’t been possible to choose a secondary translator from Chrome. In addition to combining the existing save functionality into a single button, the updated Chrome extension adds two new features previously available only in Firefox: Hovering over the icon will tell you which translator, if any, Zotero would use to save the page. On all other pages, you’ll see a gray page icon, and clicking on it will create a basic webpage item and snapshot in Zotero. When high-quality data is available, the new button will show the same icon as before: newspaper, journal article, folder, etc. In the latest version of the Chrome extension, it’s now possible to save any page to Zotero with a new, permanent button in the Chrome toolbar: For webpages where it couldn’t detect any data, you could right-click on the page and choose “Save Page to Zotero” to add a basic webpage item and snapshot to Zotero. Previously, when Zotero’s Chrome extension found high-quality data to save on a webpage, it would display an icon in the Chrome address bar.

If you use Safari, stay tuned - you’ll be getting the same features soon.) (Note: If you use Firefox, you already have these features. It’s now easier than ever to save webpages and PDFs from Google Chrome to Zotero.

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