Zotero iOS journal article saving on sites, e.g. ScienceDirect

erdoke

Following several updates to fix this, for a while PDF was parsed successfully, but now again Zotero iOS can’t download it. I used the workaround of saving from PubMed then adding link and PDF manually, but for this one Zotero reports that no item was found on page and it could only save it as a web page. So no workaround, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36075807/
(Clicking on the DOI leads you to the ScienceDirect page. The paper is open access, so anybody can download the PDF.)

erdoke

Beyond the issues of not saving PDFs from a couple of popular journals/aggregators, there’s another issue: From SpringerNature sites the journal title is added to every saved item title. Example:
The role of goblet cells and mucus in intestinal homeostasis

gets saved as

The role of goblet cells and mucus in intestinal homeostasis | Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology

erdoke

Currently saving works fine in the desktop app, but it further deteriorated in the iOS (iPad) app. I use the latest beta version on all devices.
Sites affected:
ScienceDirect: cannot save anything as the PDF can’t be located by the browser connector, so it keeps searching forever.
Nature journals: stopped working a couple of weeks ago, the connector finds nothing while stating that “Saving with Nature publishing group”
Cell Press journals: wants to save the article as a webPage, never parses the actual journal article.
etc.
Please have a look. A workaround of saving via PubMed often works, but brand new releases are sometimes not listed yet.

erdoke

More sites with saving issues
BioRxiv: nothing happens while the connector states “Saving with Highwire 2.0”

erdoke

Happy New Year!
I’m glad to report that the latest beta solved the ScienceDirect PDF parsing issue.
(An earlier version solved saving from CellPress journals.)
Unfortunately, all title of Nature journals still incorporates the journal name, separated by a “|” character. Example:
Adaptive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 persist in the pharyngeal lymphoid tissue of children | Nature Immunology

adamsmith

Could we get a URL for the Nature paper exactly as you see it, please?

erdoke

@adamsmith
Any paper in the Nature family of journals (saved from nature.com) behaves the same way.
Here are links to the two latest in my library, but this has been the Zotero iOS behavior for months.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41385-022-00574-z
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41590-022-01367-z