I second the suggestion of adding librarything.com.

Also:
National Library of Scotland (htt://www.nls.uk) -- the counterpart of British Library in Scotland.
Hong Kong Academic Library Link (http://hkall.hku.hk/) -- network of the libraries of all major universities in Hong Kong

I know that blackwell-synergy is supported, but seems that blackwell-compass (http://www.blackwell-compass.com/) is not yet. (see no blue button there)

Also: DOAJ -- Directory of Open Access Journals (www.doaj.org)

Universities library network of western Switzerland
www.rero.ch
they run under VIRTUA but probably a modified version because not recognised by Zotero

also Silverplatter Wbspirs (dbase: ATLA, FRANCIS, Philosophers index)
http://web5s.silverplatter.com

thanks

The catalogs in the Czech National Library (http://sigma.nkp.cz) are still having trouble E.g. http://sigma.nkp.cz/F/?func=file&file_name=find-a&local_base=ANL still points to http://www.zotero.org/documentation/known_translator_issues but the issues don't seem to be relevant. The data is exposed but not imported. Any feedback I should give the library?

Reference extraction from full text

The focus on "sites" does not address an outstanding problem that we face in mining citation information from the literature. There are millions of *documents* in the world that contain, in total, hundreds of millions of citations. E.g., Medline stores about 17M abstracts of papers, each of which contains, say, 20 references, that's 340M references. Libraries rarely have this citation information, only citations of documents in their collections, typically, books. I'm sure that there are some databases of articles which may be relevant here; I'm sorry I'm not as familiar with them as I should be. But in any event, what scholars are most often (!) interested in citing are papers, not books.

Take as an example, one citation from one paper in my collection of a few thousand PDFs stored on my machine (MacBook Pro :-):

"Howard, J. H., Mutter, S. A., & Howard, D. V. (1992). Serial pattern learning by event observation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 18, 1029 –1039."

One might think that the free form of such citations renders the project a non-starter. Not the case, when we realize that many (most?) of the citations are generated from bibliographic engines used by authors, EndNote being the leader. EndNote has a *finite* number of Styles, 2300 at my last count.

The problem then is the "inversion" of published citations from their published formatting back to the citation that was used to create them.

As with my ignorance of databases of article citations, I may well be ignorant of a Zotero discussion thread on this topic. But I'm tossing this into the site translators discussion, even though this note tries to push the discussion beyond the notion of "site" to the notion of reference extraction from full-text documents.

Bob Futrelle
Biological Knowledge Laboratory
Northeastern University

Berkeley Electronic Press (www.bepress.com)

Ecological Society journals (http://www.esajournals.org)

a thought: how about adding a "request site translator"
button to Zotero? That way any user who came across
a site could just push a button to register the request.
(Of course, triaging such a list could be a challenge ...)

Thanks for all the improvements, Zotero is really getting
there!

cheers
Ben

Mike--

Thanks for your offer of help--it would be fantastic if all of these ProQuest sites (and perhaps others ones too) would work with Zotero. Probably the easiest way of doing it is just to add a RIS export link for each item; we can then very simply write a translator (see the developer documentation for translators) for each of these sites that would grab and parse the RIS. This solution also has the advantage of not being Zotero-specific.

@mbrown,

As a user of some of those resources, I'd certainly love to see you adopt one or more of the open standards for bibliographic metadata (COinS and/or unAPI now; the bibliographic rdf ontology when it is finalized & adopted by others).

It is great to see Dan's commitment to supporting your products & he's given you something quite simple to implement.

But adopting the standards is a win-win. It requires no special zotero code to make it work (which not only means your data will work right away, but that no maintenance would be needed as either zotero or the ProQuest resources are changed in the future). Using these standards would also mean that your resources will work with other applications (the LibX extension and/or unAPI/COinS bookmarklets for finding sources in a local library or a preferred bookstore, etc.).

Another vote for CSA Illumina! Thanks for this great tool.

The Endeca OPAC Platform!! Since the State University System OPAC moved to Endeca, Zotero DOES NOT WORK for any of the 11 University Catalogs in Florida. I have posted a request to the Troubleshooting Forum to have the problem fixed.

WILEY INTERSCIENCE would be of interest
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/

We hung out the bunting a little too early....

Zotero works for Endeca, but only for those versions that are updated from a previous install. Newly installed versions are missing something. I finally found that copying the zotero.sqlite file found in:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\<random-string>.default\zotero
from an older install to a new install works. There is something in the zotero.sqlite file that is missing from the newest Zotero install.

Thank you, again for working on this.

"Bo"

+1 for PatrickD on Oct 29th 2006
for better Aleph (OPAC) compatibility. This would make zotero much more useful in the german community.

http://dispatch.opac.ddb.de/

DSpace has had Google Summer of Code proposals for adding better export/import of citations from/to bibliographic software. They have interest in improving their product s interaction with apps like zotero too. It'd be great if they used one of the standard methods currently accepts (e.g. COinS, unAPI) and or will accept (an RDF ontology).

ZOTERO CAN SAVE TIME
Instead of supporting all european libraries it just has to support The european library which includes 47 european national libraries

www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

That would really improve Zotero

The Society of Automotive Engineers Technical Papers http://www.sae.org/technical/papers , example http://sae.org/technical/papers/2003-01-0930

Here are some useful xpaths for individual article views:

//title/text()
//*[@name='description']/attribute::content
//*[@name='publisher']/attribute::content
//*[@name='doc_type']/attribute::content
//*[@name='publ_date']/attribute::content
//*[@name='product_code']/attribute::content
//*[@name='identifier_url']/attribute::content
//*[@name='author']/attribute::content
//*[@name='num_pages']/attribute::content
//*[@name='issn']/attribute::content
//*[@name='isbn']/attribute::content
//p[strong = "Abstract: "]/text()

These papers do not fit in well with in the available descriptions, although I use reports now. They are best described as "Papers" and are best found through their number.

-Forest Gregg

another "thanks a lot for a REALLY great tool" :-) ,
another cry better support for german-language sites :-/

none of the university-libraries in vienna seem to work atm:

http://aleph.wu-wien.ac.at/
(when trying to save: "Could not save item")

http://aleph.univie.ac.at/
(Items' titles are missing from the list of items to save;
when trying to save: "Could not save item")

http://aleph.ub.tuwien.ac.at/
(Items' titles are missing from the list of items to save;
when trying to save: "Could not save item")

Otherwise a very well thought out tool, great work!

The Iris catalog of the BANQ (national Library of Quebec): http://catalogue.banq.qc.ca/cgi-bin/bestn?id=%5FZjow%2F%E2%7Dt%2DJQNFwwdX&act=2&data=1

Bloomberg.com financial news would be a nice addition.

I would like to see www.questia.com supported.

One more vote for translator for the Public Library of Science (PLoS) journals:

www.plos.org

I second that automatic MLA International Bibliography compatibility would be very useful. I know that importing citations via EndNote or RefWorks format should work, but the magic blue button is much more elegant. Enough MLA-using academics are technophobes that automatic compatibility would probably help win them over, too!

Thanks for Zotero, by the way! It's wonderful!

I would like to see American Mathematical Society journals to be integrated. For example, Journal of AMS http://www.ams.org/jams/ and others. They all have the same inferface so it should be straightforward.

Since Web of Science updated to version 4.0 Zotero no longer works.... it would be great if this could be fixed!!!

Thanks!!!

I would really appreciate compatibility with questia.com!