Jstor citation--do I need to use Zotero proxy system

kh2208
I've been trying to grab citations from Jstor without success. When I try click the page icon for an individual citation, it creates the same file over and over to a specific journal (not the one I'm looking at). When I click the folder for group citations, it says, "an error occurred while saving this item."

I am accessing my university system by proxy, but this was not a problem when I did it at the beginning of the summer. I am using OSX 10.5.8

My apologies if this is an easily explained problem. I searched the zotero site and googled the problem to no avail.
  • adamsmith
    When I try click the page icon for an individual citation, it creates the same file over and over to a specific journal
    that I don't understand. Can you give an explicit example with URLs?
    I also don't understand how the post title relates to what you write - are you using the proxy function in Zotero or not?
  • kh2208
    edited August 21, 2010
    Sorry that I was not clearer. I can access my University's databases without problem using their function. so I am NOT using the proxy function in Zotero. My question is whether you have to use the Zotero proxy function in order for Zotero to work with jstor.

    My explicit example:

    I have on the screen the essay, "Academic Freedom and the University of Malawi" by
    David Kerr and Jack Mapanje from the African Studies Review, Sept. 2002.

    When I click the page icon, Zotero creates an entry for a journal article [no name, no author] from The American Economic Review 16:4, Dec. 1926. I tried 7 articles from different journals and this same entry is created no matter what article I find in jstor.

    I don't believe you would be able to access the page using the URL as it asks for log in information if you come at it from a different computer.

    I have been able to add citations from ProQuest, Project Muse, etc.
  • adamsmith
    Oh I see.
    I can replicate this exactly - including the old AER article.
    Looks like JSTOR redesigned their page and the Zotero translator is broken completely. You'll have to wait until it's fixed - until then I suggest you use as a workaround:
    Export Citation --> RIS (Endnote, ProCite, Reference Manager)
  • adamsmith
    I have created a ticket and a new thread here:
    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/13983/jstor-translator-is-broken-completely/
    this one should be closed to avoid confusion.
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