Can not Resolve a DOI of a Chinese database CNKI

myhan_njau

when I submited a DOI of a article in a Chinese database CNKI, such as '10.13336/j.1003-6520.hve.20160308018', https://www.doi.org/ can resolve and redirect to the address of the article i.e. http://www.cnki.net/kcms/doi/10.13336/j.1003-6520.hve.20160308018.html, however, Zotero can not resolve this DOI, and prompted me 'Zotero could not find a record for the specified identifier.Please verify the identifier and try again.' Anyone know the reason? Many thanks.

adamsmith

Zotero isn't currently able to retrieve metadata for CNKI DOIs -- this may be possible in general (as you can see, Zotero is able to import from the resolved page), but the lack of an API for CNKI DOIs makes this a lot more difficult to implement.

myhan_njau

Thanks for your reply

hayzhou

now，we can find DOI of a chinese paper,look at "http://www.chinadoi.cn/portal/index.htm",it can reslove chinese doi,please Zotero developer help us solve this problem.Thanks!

hayzhou

only add "http://dx.doi.org/" or "http://dx.chinadoi.cn/" before doi,it can reslove chinese paper html address,we can find the paper. And i found the API ,you can go "http://www.chinadoi.cn/portal/newsAction!help.action?type=4" find the open API.

adamsmith

The DOI resolution doesn't help us get the metadata, though. The OpenURL API would be helpful, but if you actually try out the example for getting paper metadata it returns an error page.

JiashunChen

Hi Adam, has Zotero solved this? If not, are there some other managers that can retrieve metadata for Chinese papers? Thanks!

adamsmith

No change swith Zotero. I'm also not aware of any reference manager importing CNKI DOIs nor on any updates to their API, sorry.

johnmy

thanks @adamsmith . I contacted the manager who said DOI lookup service is not free, Zotero can contact cuixl@Wanfangdata.com.cn for the cooperation in detail.

adamsmith

Ugh. Metadata behind a paywall.
Even if they'd be willing to give Zotero free access, that won't work. Zotero can only reasonably rely on open APIs since the actual requests come from the users, not from Zotero.