What is jasminum?

Jasminum is a plugin for Zotero, the free academic reference manager. Its main purpose is to pull metadata for Chinese academic papers from CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), which is the dominant database for Chinese-language research. If you add a Chinese PDF to Zotero and the automatic metadata detection fails, Jasminum gives you a right-click option to search CNKI and fill in the title, author, journal, and other details. The plugin also handles a common frustration with Chinese journal sources: when you save an item using the Zotero browser extension, the metadata often comes through correctly but the actual PDF or CAJ file fails to download automatically. Jasminum can scan your downloads folder and match files you have saved manually to their corresponding Zotero entries, based on how closely the filename matches the paper title. Two other features round out the plugin. First, Jasminum installs additional translators for Chinese sources, which are the scripts Zotero uses to recognize and import items from different websites. These come from the community-maintained translators_CN project. Second, it adds Chinese citation styles, so you can export references in formats required by Chinese academic journals and institutions. A bonus feature inside the Zotero PDF reader adds a bookmark outline panel. A toolbar button in the left sidebar opens a table of contents built from the PDF's existing bookmarks, with keyboard shortcuts for navigating and editing the bookmark tree. The README is written primarily in Chinese and the plugin is designed for researchers who work with Chinese academic literature. It supports Zotero versions 8 and 9.