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I set up Zotero at home. Now at work accessing via Zotero.org I cant down load anything from external sources
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next question is, at home I can see the icon but it wont import pdfs only a link to the website. I have checked the prefernec box to say always automatically attach pdfs but it doesnt work
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2095440
Zotero should automatically insert the proxy (so that the address looks something like http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.myuniversity.edu/stable/2095440
It's also possibel this just doenst' currently work for the database you're looking at - we'd have to know which one that is.
Try opening one pdf from JSTOR to accept their terms.
For example this site: http://lj.uwpress.org.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/content/27/2/247
do I just accept that there are some sites zotero wont download from?
In this case you should be able to get a pdf - Zotero looks in the right place I believe.
I can't test this because I don't have access to the full text of the article, though.
edit: also, at least for typical websites like JSTOR, pdf download should work for standalone since version 3.0.2, which was released on Tuesday.
in the last one I tried, I hovered and just got a message saying save to zotero science direct, the url is http://www.sciencedirect.com.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/science/article/pii/S0926580599000254
I will continue to try to work through the troubleshooting page
I just downloaded firefox and dont have any add ons
I exoect its the translator for specific sites, which is frustrating because hardly any of the sites in my academic discipline seem to work
If I down load and attach the pdfs manually, am I disabling any critical function when I do other things, like search for data etc?
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926580599000254
are you automatically re-directed through your schools proxy?
No, there is no downside to manually downloading pdfs -
Automatic download should work in all of these cases, though. My link to the troubleshooting was specifically to 6. --> if you encounter any of the generic translators you should never expect a pdf. But JSTOR, Highwire 2.0 and Sciencedirect should automatically attach pdfs.
I looked at point 6 in detail
I would love to be able to automatically download from Science direct because it seems that a lot of useful articles are stored there
hope you can help
In zotero standalone with firefox connector I open the preference icon and the third from the right is the cite button
In order from the left the tabs are: general, sync, search, export, cite, shortcuts, advanced
The Zotero preferences in FF are under the Gears menu, to the left of the green cross.
tick for enable proxy redirection
tick for automatically recognize proxied sources
those are the only things ticked
The window in the middle has nothing in it at all
Unless someone beats me to it, I'll tell you tomorrow how to manually add your proxy. (I'm actually surprised that Zotero doesn't catch it).
1. Open the proxy tab in Zotero for FF
2. Click on the plus below the empty window.
3. In the new window that opens, check "Muti-Site"
4. The window will change a little. Check the newly appearing "Automatically associate new hosts" box
5. In the "Schema" box enter http://%h.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/%p
6. In that same window, click on the plus under the box labeled "hostname" and type www.sciencedirect.com
7. Here is an image of what the window should look like now
http://img688.imageshack.us/img688/2595/screenshotat20120217144.png
8. Click OK. Your proxy should now show up in the window that was blank before.
9. Try this step again: In Firefox, if you paste this address in the URL bar:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926580599000254
are you automatically re-directed through your schools proxy?
Now try grabbing the item with Zotero in Firefox again - you should get the pdf attached (make sure you do _not_ have Zotero standalone open).
Also try the
http://lj.uwpress.org.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/content/27/2/247
again. Two things about that
1. make sure your Zotero version is updated to 3.0.3 - there was a glitch that caused Highwire 2.0 translators to malfunction.
2. Zotero should notify you that it has automatically associated the address with your proxy.
I used to be able to download the pdf from
http://www.tandfonline.com.helicon.vuw.ac.nz/doi/abs/10.1080/13534640500058434
but now only the snapshot downloads
edit - nevermind then. didn't see your second post.
The window in proxies was set up exactly as you suggested