Science Direct translator: long and short url

cfingerh
I have problem with some ScienceDirect translator issue.
When I try to download citations using this url

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01676296

I have no problem at all. But when I try to get the citation using the following url it does not work, even though it is the same site.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=PublicationURL&_tockey=%23TOC%235873%232009%23999719996%231024691%23FLA%23&_cdi=5873&_pubType=J&_auth=y&_acct=C000051857&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=1177143&md5=b95d0bd1cfce672d35aca46607701e00

The difference is that the first url I get when the site is journal and the latest volume is presented (search in google for Journal of Health Economics and then select the link). The second url is the internal url (From the previous url go to previous volume and then back to the next volume). It is the same site, but different url. But I don't know why it does not work to import the citations in the second url.

BTW, I tried in different computers and deactivated other firefox plugin. Using FF3.0 and zotero 2.0 (updated translators).

Thanks
  • cfingerh
    I tried to figure out the translator and found a solution to the problem.

    I changed in the ScienceDirect.js translator file the two lines

    xpath = '//table[@class="txt"]/tbody/tr/td[2]';

    to

    xpath = '//div[@class="font3"][@id="bodyMainResults"]/table/tbody/tr/td[2]/a';

    I'm not expert in translators, so maybe it would be good that somebody else checks this and maybe update the translator
  • RintzeRintze
    edited May 19, 2009
    I just tried the first link on my home computer (without institutional access). The "Select Items" box contains a lot of junk: for each paper, also a "Purchase PDF" and "Related Articles" link is included, and saving a real item fails.

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