Upgrade StorageZotero not inputting publication dates of ProQuest documents
Each book in ProQuest's 'Early English Books Collection' has a clearly displayed date of publication (e.g. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, London, >1651<), but when extracting and inputting the dates of some books into my Zotero Library, Zotero will for some reason enter the place of publication (London) in the field for the date (1651). The actual metadata in the date field will read "p. London." For other books, instead of the date it will read "leaf of plates" or "leaves of plates" or "p., [1] leaf of plates" - very weird.
Solutions anyone?
Solutions anyone?
Joseph Hall, Occasionall Meditations, London, >1630<
https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2240875806/citation/2A8FEA5AB2944BA9PQ/120 –
Metadata displayed instead of date: “for Nath”
Serenus Cressy, A Collection of Several Treatises in Answer to Dr. Stillingfleet, >1672<
https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2240878316/citation/50D3656F735F41CEPQ/5
Metadata displayed instead of date: “p. in various pagings. s.l.”
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding in four books, >1695<
https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2248570463/citation/23C4CF9714204675PQ/21
Metadata displayed instead of date: “p., 1 leaf of plates”
The problem occurs when using other databases as well:
Kirsten Macfarlane, ‘Why did Henry Dunster Reject Infant Baptism? Circumcision and the Covenant of Grace in the Seventeenth-Century Transatlantic Reformed Community,’ >2021<
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/why-did-henry-dunster-reject-infant-baptism-circumcision-and-the-covenant-of-grace-in-the-seventeenthcentury-transatlantic-reformed-community/EC39E345D5F0261134E285125EE7555D
doi:10.1017/S0022046920002572
Metadata displayed instead of date: “undefined/ed”
Jonathan Mcgovern, “Some Elizabethan Sermons Delivered at St Paul's Cross (1597),” >2021<
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-ecclesiastical-history/article/some-elizabethan-sermons-delivered-at-st-pauls-cross-1597/BBBAF01EB666C2930BD74DA71AF4066B
doi:10.1017/S0022046921000671.
Metadata displayed instead of date: “undefined/ed”
There is nothing to be done with the Cambridge journal metadata. The Cambridge University Press metadata for ePub ahead-of-print items puts the "undefined" text into the publication date. I guess it is their way of saying that the article will be issued with volume/issue/pagination some time in the future (maybe this year or the next, maybe in an even more distant year). For my own purposes I edit that "undefined" to the current year and place "ePub" in each of the volume/issue/page fields. That works for me but because I use Zotero for a purpose different from that of most users, it may not work for you.
I have a fix for PQ EEBO under review