Upgrade StorageLibrary Proxies : basics questions
Could somebody explain to me the value and the recommended practices for proxies settings when consulting i) press articles ; ii) academic articles from your Library/University distant access please?
To my view the documentation page does not explain this with clarity (https://www.zotero.org/support/connector_preferences#proxies_preferences). And the forum has specific questions but nothing I could really understand from a quick search.
I can see from a personal test (press article added from my library proxy with Zotero web plug) that letting default parameters adds the information that an article x has been added from my instition vpn (i.e the institution acronym appears in the url field in Zotero).
...But what are the nuts and bolts of this? What are the others options available and what are the corresponding pros and cons? Any impact on the printed bibliography (let say in APA7 or Chicago style) ?
Thank you!
To my view the documentation page does not explain this with clarity (https://www.zotero.org/support/connector_preferences#proxies_preferences). And the forum has specific questions but nothing I could really understand from a quick search.
I can see from a personal test (press article added from my library proxy with Zotero web plug) that letting default parameters adds the information that an article x has been added from my instition vpn (i.e the institution acronym appears in the url field in Zotero).
...But what are the nuts and bolts of this? What are the others options available and what are the corresponding pros and cons? Any impact on the printed bibliography (let say in APA7 or Chicago style) ?
Thank you!
The recommended settings for any resource for which you get access to your university are the default settings. Not sure what "press" articles are, but if you mean Newspapers, you shouldn't see proxy access their unless, again, access is through your university.
The settings you see either turn off specific features (the notification pop up or automatically adding new sites) or the the entire automatic redirection feature -- there's not much more to say about this?
The press article means newspaper yes indeed, please forgive my french.
Ok there is no problem regarding academic article (the url remains the same as without the proxy).
However, a suffix is added in urls from some newspapers items, see for example the two following:
https://www-mediapart-fr.bnf.idm.oclc.org/journal/international/241022/en-autriche-des-trains-pas-chers-contre-le-rechauffement-climatique
or : https://www-arretsurimages-net.bnf.idm.oclc.org
Actually it can be problematic because if I want to share the item later on with someone or if I canceled my subscription (next year, next month, etc.), I won't be able to access the item clicking on it from zotero interface url field (though it is true that I still have a html snaphot).
See that bnf.idm.oclc ? Any idea on how to make that suffix disappear?
To make sure I understand correctly -- do you need the proxy for full access to the papers?
You may use the following variables in your proxy scheme:
%h - The hostname of the proxied site (e.g., www.example.com)
%p - The path of the proxied page excluding the leading slash (e.g., about/index.html)
%d - The directory path (e.g., about/)
%f - The filename (e.g., index.html)
%a - Any string
But I won't risk anything right now.
As for the second question, the usecase is a newspapaer review (press review) that implies articles locked by a premium subscription. So yes the proxie enable me to access the full article through my institution (I need it to reach the full access).
I understood that as an alternative I could re-open the article without the proxy (so without full view), add it with Zotero connector to get the metadatas, then switch back to the full-access version, download it as pdf (if enabled by the newspaper), and then add it as a child item with zotfile. Not optimal but that should works.
I ticked the option you mentioned but I still got the same issue. Expect for the mediapart website. I tried to manually add hostnames (+ button in proxy setting) but still it is not working.
Anyway let me know if I could do something else.
Edit: Updated Debud ID instead of Report ID: D450346522
If you have other examples, we can look at those. We'd want to see Debug IDs from both Zotero and the Zotero Connector for a save attempt.
That is, every article saved has now a normalized url without suffix/prefix.
Thanks!