OVID items do not get saved

Zotero does not save OVID items after I've pulled up the article's abstract. The correct icon indicating it has sensed a journal articles appear in the browser navigation field.

"Saving Item" box appears in the lower right, but the article's title does not. After a few seconds, Saving Item disappears with nothing added to Zotero's library.

When using a different engine "Academic Search Premier," items are added individually and in bulk with little fuss. Journal titles appear under "Saving Item."

I'm not sure what other information to provide, but will gladly cough up whatever need be. Thanks so much any insight you can offer!

-Jonathan
  • Can you provide an example of a reference on which this occurs? I'm able to save items from Ovid without problems. Thanks.
  • 10.1037/0021-843X.115.4.674 on Ovid. I am authenticated via my university's security. All articles I pull up do not get saved into Zotero.

    Accession Number 00004468-200611000-00003.
    Author Tram, Jane M. 1; Cole, David A. 1,2
    Institution (1)Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University
    Title A Multimethod Examination of the Stability of Depressive Symptoms in Childhood and Adolescence.[Miscellaneous Article]
    Source Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 115(4):674-686, November 2006.
    Abstract In an 8-wave, 2-cohort longitudinal study, children and adolescents were followed from the fall of 5th grade to the spring of 8th grade. Participants (N = 1,269), their parents, and peers completed reports of depressive symptoms at 6-month intervals. The use of a 2-group latent variable autoregressive model to examine the stability of depressive symptomatology revealed several trends. First, the 6-month stability of depressive symptoms was high for boys and girls. Second, the stability of depressive symptomatology was lower between the spring of 6th grade and the fall of 7th grade than during any other point in the study. Finally, the stability of depressive symptoms did not differ with respect to gender.

    (C) 2006 by the American Psychological Association
    DOI Number 10.1037/0021-843X.115.4.674
  • Hi, I'd like to confirm that I can't save OVID refernces too.
    I first tried saving some references from a particular issue of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. Zotero suggested that I contact the translator author. I then tried saving a specific article and had the same result as jmelvin (I wonder if this is a specific issue with the OVID's psychological database) .
    Second issue - when I tried to export the result it saved a file "ovidweb.cgi" that Zotero did not recognise when I tried to import it. Here is its structure:
    it <1>
    VN - Ovid Technologies
    DB - Your Journals@Ovid
    AN - 00004468-199908000-00002.
    AU - Wakefield, Jerome C. 1,2
    IN - (1)Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research and the School of Social Work, Rutgers-The State University of New Jersey.
    TI - Evolutionary Versus Prototype Analyses of the Concept of Disorder. [Article]
    SO - Journal of Abnormal Psychology August 1999;108(3):374-399
    AB - The harmful dysfunction (HD) analysis of the concept of disorder ( J. C. Wakefield, 1992a) holds that disorders are harmful failures of internal mechanisms to perform their naturally selected functions. S. O. Lilienfeld and L. Marino (1995) proposed instead that disorder is a Roschian prototype concept without defining properties. Against the HD analysis, they argued that many disorders are not failures of naturally selected functions because they are either designed reactions (e.g., fever) or failures of functions that are not naturally selected (e.g., reading disorder). The HD analysis is defended here against these and other objections and compared with the Roschian account. It is argued that the objections are based on conceptual confusions and can be turned around to provide strong new support for the HD analysis. A series of conceptual experiments demonstrates the superior explanatory power of the HD analysis and disconfirms the Roschian account., (C) 1999 by the American Psychological Association

    I love Zotero,
    keep up the good work.
    Jon
  • Any other community members have insight into this? Perhaps developers are aware of parsing issues related to OVID and are working on this for the next Zotero build?
  • bump! Any insight anyone? Zotero still does not work when capturing OVID items.
  • No problems here when trying to save the article noted by Jon Rubin. Jon, are you still experiencing problems with that article?
  • Hi Sean, yes sorry to say I still can't save this article from OVID. Is there any further information I could provide that would be useful? I am using what I think is the latest version 1.0.0b4.r5

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