After some fussing and hair pulling I've constructed a demo of linking a journal to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and displaying the results in Zotero (see my earlier post for rationale). After some searching I managed to retrieve metadata for several hundred article from the Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature . Using a local copy of the BHL metadata, I wrote a script that looked up each article in BHL and found the URL of the

One thing I find myself doing (probably more often than I should) is adding a reference to my Zotero library for an item in the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). BHL doesn't have article-level metadata (see But where are the articles?), so when I discover a page of interest (e.g., one that contains the original description of a taxon) I store metadata for the article containing that page in my Zotero library.