Sciencedirect translator completely broken!

ib · January 24, 2010

Since yesterday update of sciencedirect site the translator stopped working correctly. It is quite expected, but I think that this fact needs mentioning in this forum, as the translator seems to work, but imports only reference title and (with errors) the author's names.

ib · January 24, 2010

I forgot to add the (possibly) needed information:

My Zotero version is 2.0b7.6

A sample link:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TFN-485PFBP-7&_user=3395024&_coverDate=04/14/2003&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000060416&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=3395024&md5=75857abc0266f364cf3f9c80d9f2fa7c

Bionatsci · January 24, 2010

I can confirm this, automatic grabbing of PDFs doesn't appear to work either now.

megantrimnal · January 24, 2010

I know it is redundant, but I wanted to also confirm this happening to me. It seems like the science direct website has been updated since last week and this may be contributing to the problem. Please help, I use this site almost everyday!

thanks

dstillman · January 25, 2010

This was indeed due to a site upgrade. I've pushed an updated translator that fixes authenticated single-page saving and PDF download (at least for me). Search results and guest mode saving won't work until the translator is updated properly, which we'll try to get to very soon.

megantrimnal · January 25, 2010

It is still not working for me. Is there something that I need to do to make this updated translator work for me?

dstillman · January 25, 2010

Oh, I should have added: Your copy of Zotero should auto-update within 24 hours, or you can update manually by clicking Update Now in the General pane of the Zotero prefs.

Bionatsci · January 25, 2010

Works for me.

I'd like to say thank you for tackling this so quickly. Sciencedirect is such a big database that this excellent level of support really does make a difference to us scientists.