As of almost a year later, there still appears to be no response to this request. Wilson Web was also included in the previous "translators you'd like to see" posts, so it's not a new request. They publish a whole bunch of [subject] full text reference databases and are heavily used at many schools. Is there a reason that the service has not yet been addressed or even made it on to a list somewhere?
The primary issue with Wilson has been that they do not stick to the spec for exporting data to reference management tools. It may be possible to work around this, but it will most likely not be a straightforward project. I opened a ticket for the issue. https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1510
Thank you for doing this. My research includes Wilson databases, and now I dread finding articles there. Anything you can do to help make it Zotero compatible would be appreciated.
I hope you'll do what it takes. I just finished teaching a class full of future librarians (and potential Zotero promoters!) who were not happy to see that their main research database was unable to work with Zotero.
At least, reading this thread, I can see why the so-called RIS option does not produce something readable by Zotero: it is not a standard RIS file that is produced.
If you really love Zotero and need to use Wilson Web AND you have access to RefWorks--you can always export from WW to RefWorks and then export from RefWorks to import to Zotero.
Granted, its not the pleasurable user experience that I love about Zotero, but it gets the job done.
There is a way, but it will take a bit of patience and diligence and some heavy hitting find and replace action.
You can use the generic function to "export to bibliographic software"
In the case of a reference I just looked up that created this: TI: Gentle conquerors OT: P. Cushman, H. Keller and M. Curie JN: The Saturday Evening Post SO: The Saturday Evening Post v. 249 (July 1977) p. 80 PY: 1977 SU: Great men and women; Curie, Marie, 1867-1934; Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 HSU: Great men and women PD: Illustration ISSN: 0048-9239 DT: Feature Article UD: 20021123 DER: 20000612 IU: Readers' Guide Retrospective ORB: BBIR05684201; BRGR78029295 AN: 197718200791036 PURL: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e569c7a03fef0c20e176553222f90d24c534f5c779b833a52e7fd007be2a1b017&fmt=C Link to Index Pages This is in a nonsense format. However, with a bit of work we can do find and replace functions to swap out each piece of this for the parts of RIS which Zotero can understand. For reference take a look at the field mappings between RIS and Zotero.
You would need to get it to look something like this. TY - JOUR T1 - Gentle conquerors A1 - P. Cushman, H. Keller JF - The Saturday Evening Post PY - 1977 KW - Great men and women Kw - Curie, Marie Kw - 1867-1934 Kw - Keller, Helen Kw - 1880-1968 SN - 0048-9239 UR - http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e569c7a03fef0c20e176553222f90d24c534f5c779b833a52e7fd007be2a1b017&fmt=C ER -
This is a messy task. There will be data loss. However, you can migrate data this way. I did it a year ago with 80 items from readers guide retrospective and it just took some patience and a few tries at importing the data.
The other thread, https://www.zotero.org/trac/ticket/1510, says that this issue was fixed by Wilson, but apparently it broke again or was never fixed.
I have the issue in the same database others have mentioned, Library Lit & Inf Full Text, accessed via the library catalog at the University of British Columbia.
I get the usual "Could not Save Item" error, but it seems to save some of the information correctly (Item type, Title, Author), but not the Publication, Volume, Issue, Pages, or Date. As for Publication, that's saved in Journal Abbr instead of Publication.
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At least, reading this thread, I can see why the so-called RIS option does not produce something readable by Zotero: it is not a standard RIS file that is produced.
Granted, its not the pleasurable user experience that I love about Zotero, but it gets the job done.
A few extra steps would be worth it not to having to give up Zotero just because I am working within Wilson Web.
You can use the generic function to "export to bibliographic software"
In the case of a reference I just looked up that created this:
TI: Gentle conquerors
OT: P. Cushman, H. Keller and M. Curie
JN: The Saturday Evening Post
SO: The Saturday Evening Post v. 249 (July 1977) p. 80
PY: 1977
SU: Great men and women; Curie, Marie, 1867-1934; Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
HSU: Great men and women
PD: Illustration
ISSN: 0048-9239
DT: Feature Article
UD: 20021123
DER: 20000612
IU: Readers' Guide Retrospective
ORB: BBIR05684201; BRGR78029295
AN: 197718200791036
PURL: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e569c7a03fef0c20e176553222f90d24c534f5c779b833a52e7fd007be2a1b017&fmt=C
Link to Index Pages
You would need to get it to look something like this.
TY - JOUR
T1 - Gentle conquerors
A1 - P. Cushman, H. Keller
JF - The Saturday Evening Post
PY - 1977
KW - Great men and women
Kw - Curie, Marie
Kw - 1867-1934
Kw - Keller, Helen
Kw - 1880-1968
SN - 0048-9239
UR - http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e569c7a03fef0c20e176553222f90d24c534f5c779b833a52e7fd007be2a1b017&fmt=C
ER -
This is a messy task. There will be data loss. However, you can migrate data this way. I did it a year ago with 80 items from readers guide retrospective and it just took some patience and a few tries at importing the data.
I have the issue in the same database others have mentioned, Library Lit & Inf Full Text, accessed via the library catalog at the University of British Columbia.
I get the usual "Could not Save Item" error, but it seems to save some of the information correctly (Item type, Title, Author), but not the Publication, Volume, Issue, Pages, or Date. As for Publication, that's saved in Journal Abbr instead of Publication.