LexisNexis doesn't work

bernd888
Hi,

i can't add data (author, etc..) from documents listed at LexisNexis.

any ideas.
thx
  • Tjowens
    The only LexisNexis site with structured enough info for Zotero to work with is Lexis Academic. So if you want to use Zotero with one of their other services you should contact Lexis and request that they better expose their information to reference management tools.

    If you are working with LexisNexis Academic you should be able to grab individual items. There is a known issue with search results.
  • NJH
    Grabbing individual items does not work in Lexis Nexis Academic either, unfortunately.
  • fbennett
    Tjowens,

    I've built a translator that works on the unstructured content of Lexis: US & Canadian Law Reviews Combined (in Total Legal Research), if someone with access to that service wants to take a look at testing the translator.
  • Tjowens
    Frank, that's fantastic. Can you post it as a file to the dev group? http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/files
  • fbennett
    edited July 15, 2009
    Done. It's up as lexis-law-reviews-2009-07-16.js. Should work with 2.0.

    The scraper does not support search lists, but it does grab an HTML snapshot of the page, which is very useful for note-taking. I had to do some fixing in the highlighting code to get it to work with Lexis snapshots, specifically to handle these pages, which are pretty ghastly under the hood -- the line endings are all BR tags, which caused the original code to do strange things. Not sure if the patch has made it into mainstream Zotero yet.

    EDIT: Please also note that this works only in the "US & Canadian Law Reviews, Combined" section of Lexis Total Research. The code is built to recognize the (Dr. Evil quotes on) "format" (Dr. Evil quotes off) of law review article headers, and won't work on other types of content.
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