Cochrane library

iainjmarshall

Hi,

I'm having a bit of trouble using zotero with Cochrane reviews, which I use a lot. The translator for the Cochrane library doesn't work well.

When specific Cochrane reviews are added to zotero, a citation is made to the Cochrane library in general rather than to the specific review.

Example:

for url:
http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/clsysrev/articles/CD002966/frame.html

a book is cited
"Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 09/1996"

whereas the specific review should be cited as a journal article:

Saenz A, Fernandez-Esteban I, Mataix A, Ausejo Segura M, Roqué i Figuls M, Moher D.
Metformin monotherapy for type 2 diabetes mellitus. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue 3.
Art. No.: CD002966. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002966.pub3.

thanks for your help

Iain

noksagt

There is no Cochrane translator. That URL uses the DOI translator. The only DOI on the page is 10.1002/14651858.CD002966.pub3. CrossRef does not type this as a journal article:
http://www.crossref.org/openurl/?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&req_dat=usr:pwd&rft_id=info:doi/10.1002/14651858.CD002966.pub3&format=unixref&redirect=false

However, Zotero should be improved to parse the contributors that are provided (although they aren't listed as authors). It should also be improved to recognize the refrence_entry's title and date. From the original data, this might be treated like a book chapter.

The CrossRef data does not have the issue number. Zotero does not have the concept of an article number.

ajlyon

Please go to 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 fix things for the Cochrane DOIs -- there are some limitations in how we handle book sections right now, and this code should probably be tested and worked on some more before pushing it to the general public.

Please let me know if this works for you. In particular, try it out with other DOIs to expose any errors I might have introduced in normal DOI processing.

Other coders: Is there a nice description of the CrossRef data format somewhere? Our parsing of it is a little ad-hoc, especially when it comes to hierarchical items like book sections.

Dan: Can we add a DOI field to book sections and books? It looks like such items are getting DOIs assigned more and more often these days.

ajlyon

This is now fixed in the Zotero repository and it will be fixed for all users in the near future (https://www.zotero.org/trac/changeset/6350).