JSTOR + Chrome

bjncn
Hi everyone,

First, congratulations on a beautiful product. I am a new user with a fresh install of the standalone version + chrome extension and JSTOR is most of the time not working. I installed firefox to do some test, followed the guidelines here (http://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues), and here is what I observed.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/i348761 and http://www.jstor.org/stable/2958021 kind of links : no folder/article icon in either chrome or firefox. Not working at all.

http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660196 and http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660846 kind of links : folder/article (respectively) icons but "could not save items" error in chrome, works fine in firefox.

I am running Chrome beta (14) on windows seven, no other extension. A search on the forum showed that similar issues have arisen in the past (there seems to be something going on with the old/new type of stable url), but my understanding is that they should be fixed now.

Thanks.
  • adamsmith
    all of those JSTOR links for for me on Firefox. How are you accessing them? Is there a proxy involved? If so, provide the full address including proxy.
  • bjncn
    No proxy, institutional access through IP identification I guess.
  • ajlyon
    These work in the Zotero Standalone 3.0b1 builds that are currently being worked on: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/zotero-dev/-/TvW144RP9j8J

    I'm not sure why it's not working for you with Standalone, but there's no reason to be concerned unless they prove to not work in the much-improved Standalone 3.0b1. You can wait until the 3.0 betas are officially announced, or switch immediately, following the instructions in the referenced thread.
  • dstillman
    Note that those are pre-release builds that will never auto-update. Unless you want to help test, just wait a couple days, or else be sure you switch to the released versions when they come out.
  • bjncn
    Thanks for your (very fast) help. I installed the pre-release builds. It fixed the following issue : on the http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660196 and http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660846 kind of links, the extraction now works from Chrome too (previously it worked from Firefox but I was getting an error from Chrome).

    However, on the http://www.jstor.org/stable/i348761 and http://www.jstor.org/stable/2958021 kind of links, I still get no folder/article icon in either Chrome or Firefox.

    When I go to http://www.jstor.org/stable/info/2958021 (by clicking "summary" on the previous page), I do get an "Embedded RDF via Zotero Standalone" icon ("Web Page" item type) , but the information is wrong (title + name ok, no journal information at all, date in 2007...).
  • ajlyon
    When you hover the cursor over the save icon on pages like http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/660846, what does it say?

    It sounds to me like the JSTOR translator is completely broken for you, and you're seeing fallback to DOI. If so, you need to reset translators in Standalone (from the preferences), and try again.

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