import from www.agu.org

etiennesky

there are a few issues with importing references from www.agu.org (American Geophysical Union)

1) "Save to Zotero" does not import Abstract, Publication (goes into "Journal Abbreviation" instead), Volume, Issue number, DOI

2) "export RIS citation" link does not automatically add the reference, Firefox only offers to download the .ris file


example at http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2009/2008GL037074.shtml

thanks,
Etienne

Rintze

I guess the site translator can be rewritten to use the RIS-citation directly? It currently scrapes the page.

etiennesky

I guess that would be the best solution...

However, why does not Zotero import directly the .ris file? Does the website have to set the MIME type for Zotero auto-detecting a RIS file?

dstillman

Does the website have to set the MIME type for Zotero auto-detecting a RIS file?

Yes. The site is returning "application/octet-stream" in the Content-Type header rather than "application/x-research-info-systems".

etiennesky

Which site translator can be used as a template?

Is there an existing Zotero function to simply parse the RIS file, given the file content or file location?

Thanks

Rintze

The PLoS translator uses RIS-files, although it might not be the most concise translator in the collection:

http://www.zotero.org/trac/browser/extension/trunk/translators/PLoS Journals.js

You can just call the RIS translator inside your own translator (by calling upon it by its ID: 32d59d2d-b65a-4da4-b0a3-bdd3cfb979e7).