One of the eventual aims is to allow easy exporting from reading lists to reference management software, and also to support using reference management software as the tool for creating new lists.

To test support for exporting references to Zotero, I’ve just added OpenURL COinS records to each reading list. At present, this is only for books and book chapters, but we’ll add support for other reference types in due course.

If you use Zotero, we’d be really grateful if you could test exporting book and book chapter references, and let us know:

  • does it work?
  • are there any issues/problems/bugs you can spot?

…you can leave comments here or you can send an email to myreading@hud.ac.uk

There are a couple of limitations with using COinS that we’re aware of:

  • it doesn’t support exporting notes
  • it doesn’t support exporting URLs