Zotero's problems extracting from ProQuest (e.g. EEBO, Early English Books Online)

innovation1 · January 6, 2022

Nowadays when I attempt to extract metadata for multiple ProQuest EEBO documents at once, Zotero reports "An error occurred while saving this item" and does nothing.

Also, even when extracting the metadata from books taken one at a time, it often saves only a Webpage item, with the book title as the webpage title, but without date or author information.

This didn't happen a few weeks ago. Any resolutions to these recent issues?

adamsmith · January 6, 2022

Could we please get a URL exactly as you see it when you're importing?

innovation1 · January 9, 2022

Here are examples of works which I attempted to save one at a time, along with their URLS (I replaced the ID number with hashtags):

Saved webpage title:
"Ethices Commendium, in Usum Academicæ Juventutis Authore Daniele Whitby ... - Proquest"
Saved webpage URL:
https://www.proquest.com/docview/2240878647/1F182D84EEF948EEPQ/2?accountid=[####]&imgSeq=1

Saved webpage title:
Some Considerations Concerning the Trinity, and the Ways of Managing That Controversie Together with a Defence of Them Against the Objections of the Dean of St. Pauls
Saved webpage URL:
https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2248592930/3F5306BD780C473CPQ/3?accountid=[####]&imgSeq=1

adamsmith · January 10, 2022

I see -- that isn't working right indeed, but note that if you save from the "Details" view rather than one of the full text views, it does save correct _and_ with the PDF full text included.

CC @AbeJellinek

innovation1 · January 13, 2022

Yes, Zotero is saving just fine from each ProQuest EEBO 'Details' page taken one at a time. But sadly I'm increasingly finding that Zotero cannot extract metadata for multiple ProQuest EEBO documents at once.

Any solutions to this latter issue?