Project Muse - can't capture multiple citations (no yellow folder)

Jon Rubin
Hi, not sure if this is expected behaviour or not, but when I go to this page

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/philosophy_psychiatry_and_psychology/toc/ppp.15.4.html

I'd expect to be able to grab all the journal articles; i.e. I'd see the yellow folder, not the grey single citation icon.

Regards, Jon.
  • mark
    Same for me.
  • Jon Rubin
    Is there any update on this? The Project Muse translator (at least the ToC part of it) has been broken for what, 18 months now?
    Is it just that translator issues are (currently?) bottom of the priority pile?
    Is it that the Project Muse translator is particularly difficult or low priority?
  • ajlyon
    No, this isn't difficult or especially low priority. New translator work is done by interested people or by the occasional volunteer. Fixes to completely broken translators are somewhat higher priority, since we try to commit to supporting existing translators indefinitely. Fixes for partially broken translators are lower priority, since there is usually an easy work-around-- here you could click on each article and save it individually.

    Now that you've mentioned it again, I've taken a look and I think I'll have a fix in the next hour or so.
  • Jon Rubin
    If you could, that'd be brilliant.
  • ajlyon
    Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/Project MUSE.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

    It should start working again.
  • Jon Rubin
    Woo and an enormous hoo!
    Very grateful. Thankyou.
  • ajlyon
    Checked into the repository. Should hit clients with the next version of Zotero or when Dan pushes it to clients.
  • Newton Key
    Greetings. I am having this trouble with Project Muse as well. Six items selected but only 3 appear for Zotero.
  • adamsmith
    sample URL?
    The original issue was fixed months ago.
  • Newton Key
    I am sure this is dense, but how do I get a url?

    Project muse just reads http://muse.jhu.edu/search/save

    I took a screen shot of the problem and posted it

    http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/gifsplus/zotero_temp_projectmuse_query.jpg

    4 in my saved search, but only one is downloaded when I click the chart in the url box

    Ref works and end note don't work for zotero do they?
  • ajlyon
    What you're doing is not the recommended Zotero way of saving things. When you find an item you like, either in a page of search results or when viewing the page for a specific item, just click the folder or page icon in the address bar up top. Zotero will handle the rest. What you've done here is collect the items you want in a MUSE saved folder -- Zotero doesn't know how to read those correctly and bungles it, fetching only one. We could add support for such save folders, but you shouldn't really even need them for MUSE.
  • adamsmith
    For me at least, I'm not having any any luck with regular multi-downloads - there I actually get an error - I don't get anything in the error report at the moment, but I think that's just because it's cluttered with other stuff.
    The search URL is
    http://muse.jhu.edu/search/results?search_id=1516507147&action=reload
    search term "test" try to import the first three results.
    Is that just me?
  • ajlyon
    Sorry about this one-- I had apparently shipped a broken translator.

    Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/Project MUSE.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

    It should start working again. If this works for you, please post here so that I can submit this change to be pushed to all users.

    This version also saves cleanly from saved results pages.
  • Newton Key
    OK. I think I am on top of things until I try to find my mozilla firefox profile to save this in the zotero folder. If I can find it (well find it twice; I found it once), I am sure that will work, but I could never explain it to students, so will have to do the work around for now. I will come back to this.
  • ajlyon
    Just click "Show Zotero data directory" in the Zotero preferences.

    And once we test this, it will be pushed to all users, so your students won't have to install it manually.
  • Newton Key
    OK, I put the github.com bit in my translators directory and restarted firefox. But Project Muse still seems to capture only half of my saved results as this screen shot shows

    http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/gifsplus/zotero_temp_projectmuse_query2.jpg

    Indeed, Project Muse does not always capture all of any page of original searches, as this one shows 11-20, but only 8 citations

    http://ux1.eiu.edu/~nekey/gifsplus/zotero_temp_projectmuse_query3.jpg
  • ajlyon
    Try installing from Github again-- I was making some bad assumptions that led all items without a PDF to be missed when capturing from search results.
  • Newton Key
    Wohoo! Six selected and saved from 2 separate pages; six on the saved results download into Zotero. I don't know if that is enough testing for the trade, but it is enough for me. I think it works. Thanks. I assume that will be changed universally in future so my students don't have to think of this behind the scenes stuff?
  • ajlyon
    I think that's enough for me, especially since the previous version didn't work at all. I've committed this to the Zotero trunk, and it should hit users within 24 hours of Dan pushing it, or with the next Zotero release.
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