[Solved] URL bar icon does not appear on Google Scholar
GS is moving more forcefully toward its new "modern" interface, which will be especially dramatic for GS Advanced users. See here: http://googlescholar.blogspot.com/2012/05/our-new-modern-look.html
It is quite clear they are intending to phase-out what they describe as the "traditional" GS interface. The new GS-Adv. interface is seriously buggy and cumbersome. But the worst thing is that I can no longer get the Zotero translator icons to even display in the address field when using GS or GS-Adv! This is deeply confounding.
FWIW I use Zotero 3.08 and Firefox 14.01 (although the same problem applied when I was using 13) on a windows laptop. Any fixes pending? Tips?
I'm hoping this problem is temporary and narrow in impacted users, because it is a SERIOUS impediment for me. Guidance (or solace) welcome.
---Andy
acarruth@gmu...
It is quite clear they are intending to phase-out what they describe as the "traditional" GS interface. The new GS-Adv. interface is seriously buggy and cumbersome. But the worst thing is that I can no longer get the Zotero translator icons to even display in the address field when using GS or GS-Adv! This is deeply confounding.
FWIW I use Zotero 3.08 and Firefox 14.01 (although the same problem applied when I was using 13) on a windows laptop. Any fixes pending? Tips?
I'm hoping this problem is temporary and narrow in impacted users, because it is a SERIOUS impediment for me. Guidance (or solace) welcome.
---Andy
acarruth@gmu...
(Edit: Changed "not minor" to "not major" -- sorry if that gave anyone a start.)
https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/432
Unfortunately, while the restored translators for Google Scholar can once again be used to download the selected citations pronto, they fail to work by saving screen shots or by downloading the relevant, selected articles, even when logged in through the library proxy.
Any sense of how long that functionality is liable to remain off-line (down)? Sorry I'm not more helpful myself.
--Andy
Thanks
I'll take another look in a bit if no one else picks it up.
Well, that's interesting.
It looks like Google have changed the HTML of the site at some point within the past four hours, so the fix I put up no longer works. There's not much we can do about this until the site makes up its mind what it wants its pages to look like.
Let's give it a day to settle.
If it is helpful, the contact e-mail address I have is this: scholar-support@google.com
I have received only unuseful automated responses from them, but it is possible they may have responded already with some programming changes. Wow.
Let me emphasize that I dazzled by the responsiveness of you Zotero wonks. MUCH appreciated. My follow-up was only intended to show that the mechanism for downloading a series of journal articles from a GS search was (and is) not working, after the bibliographic mechanism (translators) was restored.
What's more, though I have no programming experience, I am thrilled with Zotero overall, and would like to contribute what I can. I hope to give a workshop to fellow grad students in my department, and I'm more than willing to contribute my time. Other than these forums, is there a way or a place where I can develop expertise useful to this enterprise (rather than just opine as I have)? TIA.
---Andy
I haven't used the latest Google Scholar translator much, and I have a question about its expected behavior. When an article is linked to (say) JSTOR, and I have my JSTOR proxy enabled (and so have access to licensed full text content), should grabbing the item in GS pull through the PDF of the article, or is the expected behavior to get a snapshot of the JSTOR page for the article? I'm getting the latter, and I'm curious whether that's normal, or whether something is still broken.
Even after the proxy server log-in, JSTOR articles will NOT download until one clicks one-time on the JSTOR permission/consent link for any specific article to acknowledge terms of license/access. That must be done only once per log-in/session, as batch downloads from JSTOR will subsequently behave as any other academic or publisher database (so long as my university library subscribes, of course).
Not trying to get too far into the weeds, but wanted to offer the caveat to you (and the tip for other Zotero users who may not understand why JSTOR articles can be problematic in batch downloads using Zotero and GS).
Incidentally, the capacity to use GS-Advanced to do sophisticated searches by author or journal using key phrases and other authors' names is potentially transformative like no other tool(s) I've seen in graduate school. Most of the "scholarly" databases I've had occasion to use are woefully incomplete, under-indexed or inefficient (or all three). I expect more and more Zotero users will using it in tandem with GS. Sky's the limit.
Thx for your efforts.