PubMed Central translator problem

jpltanis · September 10, 2009

I am having problem capturing data from PubMed Central (Issue ID: 1328030057) Zotero report that it is a known "translator problem". Not sure if it meant that the problem had be report it already or not.

In any case, here is URL, which I got the error.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pubmed&pubmedid=18550804

Ubuntu 9.04 running 64bits OS
Firefox V3.0.13
Zotero V2.0b6.5

Bionatsci · September 10, 2009

I'm also getting this error. This URL (the article page):

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=367614&tool=pmcentrez

gave the "could not save item error".

Interestingly this URL (search results for the same article):

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=367614&tool=pmcentrez

didn't throw an error, but instead saved completely the wrong article. This appears to be because the translator is treating the PMCID number as a PMID number (the PMCID for the "real" article = the PMID for the incorrectly saved one). If it is an issue for the translator to work directly from the PMCID I wonder whether it would be possible to write a script to automatically use this converter to get back to the PMID from the PMCID.

Windows vista
Firefox 3.5.2
Zotero 2.0b6.5

Bionatsci · September 10, 2009

Ah - it appears the developers are already onto this:

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/8526/pubmed-translator-not-working/#Comment_38948