Making the Most of Adelphi Libraries with Zotero and other Systems
Using “Library Locate” to Find Items in Adelphi’s Library Holdings
Whether you use Zotero or another citation manager, there are some things you can do to make the most of your experience while doing research at Adelphi. Zotero and other systems allow customization specific to the user’s institution. This may involve configuring the application with an OpenURL resolver from your institution, so that one may click through to full-text versions of articles or books that are available via institutional subscription. This in effect tells your citation manager to try to find the resource via your institution library’s e-resource system.
In Zotero this feature is called Library Locate. To configure Library Locate for Adelphi, open the Zotero app’s preferences, go to the General tab and scroll down to "Locate" (in earlier versions of Zotero, this is located under the Advanced preference tab). Next to Resolver, you should find Adelphi University in the list of available resolvers, under North America. If you cannot find it, you may put this string in the Base URL field yourself:
https://onesearch.adelphi.edu/view/uresolver/01ADELPHI_INST/openurl
Now with a citation selected in Zotero, you will find the Library Locate option under the arrow icon in the right-hand sidebar. Selecting this will prompt Zotero to try to locate the resource via Adelphi Libraries’ systems (you may be required to log in using your Adelphi credentials).
(Note that earlier versions of the Zotero Desktop app have the Locate menu under a bright green arrow in the upper right area of the window.)
Under the same menu you may also ask Zotero to locate the item in Google Scholar or other systems you may configure via the "Manage Lookup Engines..." option.
Using the Library Proxy to Access Licensed Content
Adelphi Libraries make use of a proxy service to provide authenticated access for students, faculty, and other affiliated users. If you use the Zotero Connector browser extension (see Capturing Citation Information) Zotero can automatically detect our proxy and redirect to the proxied resource when applicable. With the Zotero Connector installed, when you go to a journal site you may see a banner at the top of the page indicating that a proxy has been detected.
If you accept the proxy, a change will be made to the Connector configuration so that the proxy URL pattern can be used for future works.
With this configuration in place, you should be asked if you would like to be redirected to proxied URLs when you go to an article or book landing page on publisher sites. You can also try to reload a page using the proxy by right-clicking on the Zotero Connector icon and selecting "Reload via Proxy."
You will know that a URL is proxied if it begins with "https://adelphi.idm.oclc.org" rather than the publisher's host name (e.g., "tandfonline.com" as in the example above). See our guide on proxy services for more information.