Cochrane Library (Wiley) data not being captured

jwickens

Error Report 1580927687

I am not sure if this error report was generated from the problem I encountered but I will leave that to you to decide. The problem I had was in using Wiley's Cochrane Library. When viewing a record the "page" icon appears in the url bar indicating that Zotero recognizes this as an article but when clicked it saves a record with only "The Cochrane Library" in it. Using the manual save yields the same result, i.e. it is not capturing the item data, just the db title.

I am using Zotero 2.02, Firefox 3.63, and Windows XP Professional v.5.1

Thanks
Joe Wickens

adamsmith

sample URL?
Also - if you hover with your cursor over the page icon - what does it say?
(could be something like "Embedded RDF" or "Wiley Interscience" or so)

ajlyon

Looking quickly at one such article (http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD005992/frame.html), I get a result using the DOI translator.

Using http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD005992.pub2, I am redirected to the correct page. Zotero, however, gets:

The Cochrane Collaboration, ed. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 1996. http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD005992/toc.html.

This might be one of those nasty issues that pop up with CrossRef metadata... There's another thread somewhere detailing issues with book sections that redirect correctly via dx.doi.org, but don't return complete metadata via CrossRef.

ajlyon

I went and looked into this. Try downloading http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/CrossRef.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

This should make the Cochrane reports work correctly, but I'm more concerned about other DOIs -- please check to see if the updated translator works for other DOIs. It does work in my testing, but it is important to get it right with something as important as DOI lookup.

jwickens

Fantastic! As you found, this does the trick with the Cochrane Reviews. Many thanks ajlyon.

Joe Wickens

ajlyon

Good to hear. Can you please try a number (10-15) of DOIs from non-Cochrane sources using the magic wand button, just to make sure that I didn't break anything with this patch?

I've been testing and it looks fine so far, but this needs more extensive testing than that.

jwickens

I tried 10 or so DOI's (different target publishers) from Web of Science and all worked fine. Looks like it was a clean fix.

Thanks again