Zotero not properly importing citations with quotation marks in title

Uncola

Hello,

I am working on a project to compile faculty publications for our law professors from Hein Online. I have been Batch importing directly from the authors' profile pages in Hein, which has generally been working fine. However, I just realized a major issue, Zotero does not seem to know what to do with quotation marks in titles. I have noticed that the imported titles were sometimes being cut off. For example, the title:

Dismantling "Dilemmas of Difference" in the Workplace

Would appear in Zotero as:

Dismantling

More troubling is that if the article title begins with a quotation mark, the citation is not imported at all.

Is there any workaround for this? Apologies if I am missing something obvious. The Hein pages are behind authentication so I'm not sure how to provide more information.

Thanks!

dstillman

Saving that item from HeinOnline using the Zotero Connector works fine for me. Can you explain the exact steps you're taking?

Uncola

Hello, thank you for your response. I am using the Firefox extension for this. My process has been:

- Visit an author profile page in Hein Online.
- Click the Zotero connector button, which brings up a separate window allowing me to select which of the citations on the page I want to import.

I've been noticing that the list that appears in the pop-up window has often been a few items shorter than the actual list on the page (and I am aware that the numbers are off because the pop-up window starts at zero for some reason). I've investigated this some more by comparing the lists, and found that Zotero is ignoring citations for a few different reasons:

- The title of the work begins with a quotation mark. As I mentioned in my original post, if there is a quotation mark within the title text, the imported citation cuts off the title before the quotation mark.
- The work is shown in a grey box, which seems to indicate that it is contained in a collection we may not have access to (e.g. bar journals)
- The work is listed weirdly on Hein in a way that is missing certain pieces of metadata.

I've mostly been able to get around these issues manually so far, but it is making my project take longer, so I was hoping there was a workaround or a possible fix for this. Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks,

Ben

adamsmith

Hein Online author profile pages are just not supported currently -- if you click through to the article or import from regular search results (e.g. by searching by the author name), they'll import correctly

Uncola

Ok thanks for the response. Generally the imports have been working well on the profile pages, which is why I thought this was a weird bug. Clicking through to articles is much too time consuming, as Hein's response time has been very slow, and search results are very inconsistent for finding all works by a single author without duplications.

I understand each kind of page creates new challenges, just thought I would ask about this. I appreciate the help!

adamsmith

We'll look at supporting profile pages, but no idea when that'll happen. Ticket is here: https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/2865

(and goodness, I hear you on Hein being laggy...)

adamsmith

@Uncola Author Profiles on HeinOnline are now supported.