EBSCOhost saving problem

trismegista
I'm getting a "could not save" error when trying to save articles from several EBSCOhost databases. I've gone through the steps on the "troubleshooting translator issues page." I'm not accessing EBSCOhost through a proxy, and I'm running Firefox version 4.0 and the most recent version of Zotero (which I just downloaded today).

Here's an error report from a failed attempt to save: (the username is edited)

[JavaScript Error: "Error: Permission denied to access property 'evaluate'" {file: "file:///Users/XXXX/Library/Application%20Support/Firefox/Profiles/6g1dks2u.default/zotero/translators/EBSCOhost.js" line: 0}]

Here's an example URL of an article that I'm not able to save:

http://ehis.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=5&sid=b0b5684b-b457-4cc8-86c5-934ec70bb49c%40sessionmgr11&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=aph&AN=33333191

Any suggestions for how I can get this working?
  • trismegista
    I'm still having the exact same problem, 2 days later. Does anyone know why this is happening or how I can fix it? Any help would be great appreciated!

    Just to reiterate, here's the error report, with my username X'ed out:

    [JavaScript Error: "Error: Permission denied to access property 'evaluate'" {file: "file:///Users/XXXX/Library/Application%20Support/Firefox/Profiles/6g1dks2u.default/zotero/translators/EBSCOhost.js" line: 0}]

    Report ID: 1857753555
  • ajlyon
    This sounds like something that's arising from cross-domain requests. I haven't managed to replicate it, but I'll keep trying.
  • ajlyon
    This is a general issue affecting many proxy users who use EBSCOhost.

    Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/EBSCOhost.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

    It should start working again. If this works for you, please post here so that I can submit this change to be pushed to all users.

    If this doesn't work for you, see http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/17123/ebscohost-translator-error/#Comment_88469 and direct your library staff to adjust the parameters accordingly.
  • ajlyon
    Please ignore the bit about proxies, I suppose. The updated translator might still do the trick.

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