AIP Journals using wrong site translator

quod17
Every AIP journal I've tried to save citations from fails to correctly read all of the citation data.

Example: pop.aip.org uses COinS instead of the AIP translator. As a result, the article date and authors are not collected when the citation is saved.
  • DWL-SDCA
    The problem is that AIP isn't including the information in their COinS metadata. They should be. Unless a journal ceases to properly present citation information in their COinS this is the best way to get article records into Zotero. Otherwise, Zotero must use: 1) a web scraper that can be broken the next time the journal makes cosmetic cosmetic changes to its web presentation; or 2) a doi look-up and gather information from a 3rd party. My experience is that these two methods do not necessarily produce accurate or complete information. Rather than depending upon Zotero developers and volunteers to regularly modify translators every time a journal makes substantial changes to their website; I believe that it is in our best interest to politely explain to editors and publishers the importance of uniform availability of article metadata. That would free developers and volunteers to work on other things that improve Zotero itself.

    Please write to AIP and to the editors of the journals you use. Request that their COinS information be fixed so that the record is complete. Please see the forum thread about this problem and my suggestions presented in the Hindawi problem discussion.

    http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/7687

    I spent the better part of this afternoon at the American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference talking with several journal publishers and requesting that they include _complete_ article metadata in COinS (or unAPI) so that it will be available to programs like Zotero. I talked with the publishers' marketing and A and I specialists. They were very interested.
  • ajlyon
    unAPI is really the best option, since it can serve formats like BibTeX, MARC and MODS that are quite rich. They can also specify file attachments, like PDFs, to be attached as well.

    COinS is held back somewhat by the simplicity of the OpenURL system it builds from, but it is also a very simple solution.

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