Translator issues on JSTOR and SSRN: in Abstract field

ssauerw · July 1, 2011

Hi *,

When I save citations from JSTOR (and some other sites), zotero adds signs to the abstract field. Often this is a <p> at the beginning of the abstract text.

Also, I realized that SSRN also has some issues with the translator (the first couple characters of the abstract are not saved). I always manually copy the abstract from SSRN.

Not sure if these are known issues...

Thanks!
Steve

ajlyon · July 1, 2011

For JSTOR:
Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/JSTOR.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.

For SSRN:
Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/SSRN.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.

ssauerw · July 1, 2011

Works both. Thanks!

I know that some other sites have similar issues like the JSTOR site... Is there a general fix? If not, I can post the other sites later.

Thanks again

ajlyon · July 1, 2011

Please post the specific sites-- markup like this in the abstracts is a common, but not universal, problem, and we'll fix it on a site-by-site basis.

ssauerw · July 8, 2011

Ok, here another site:

Journal of Financial Economics (ELSEVIER)
http://www.sciencedirect.com.libproxy.utdallas.edu/science/journal/0304405X

Same issue. Thanks!

Rintze · July 8, 2011

http://aem.asm.org/cgi/content/full/76/16/5383 saves the DOI as "<p>10.1128/AEM.01077-10</p>" (HighWire).

ajlyon · July 8, 2011

ssauerw: I'm not seeing this problem on the ScienceDirect page you linked, although the DOIs were being truncated, and that'll be fixed in the next release of Zotero.

Rintze: I believe that is already fixed in the translator trunk and should come out with the Zotero 2.1.9 release.