Once you create an account you will need to enter your information in to the Zotero Standalone App to sync your account. If you forgot to register or accidentally closed this window before doing so, you can still register at.

This is important if you would like to use Zotero's web based client. It will also ask you if you would like to install the Web Plugin for the same browser.įurther down the page you will be given the opportunity to register with Zotero and create an account. Once you've installed the Standalone App a page will open in your default browser letting you know Zotero successfully installed. When creating your account you can use whatever email address you would like, it is not necessary to use your FDU email address. You'll usually get better data from the publisher's site anyway.To create your free account go to and click the 'Download Now' button. In any case, even if you can't get this to work, you can still use Google Scholar via the proxy and save to Zotero just by clicking through to the publisher's site and saving from there. It's true that the links from Google Scholar to publisher sites won't then go through the proxy initially, but once you visit each publisher site through the proxy (which you can usually do quickly by appending the 'librar圓…' to the domain), Zotero will learn those and start doing the redirection for you. So what I'm suggesting is to delete from the proxy entry for your university's proxy server in the Zotero Connector preferences so that it doesn't try to redirect your requests to Google Scholar through the proxy and then to load Google Scholar directly yourself without going through the proxy, so that it just says in the address bar.

(If that works, there may be another issue here that we can look into.)

You can test this by trying to download BibTeX from the Google Scholar website while using it via the proxy. Zotero is designed to work with off-campus proxies, but Google Scholar isn't a gated site and it doesn't need to be used via a proxy - and the fact that you are may be the reason the requests Zotero makes to Google Scholar are being blocked (because all those requests would come from the proxy server's IP address, and Google Scholar actively blocks IP addresses that make too many requests). So that means I cannot use zotero in off-campus proxy.

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