Source for book chapter metadata?

DWL-SDCA · April 24, 2012

I realize that there are several sources where I can download metadata for books into Zotero. Have I overlooked a source where I can get metadata for the chapters within a book?

adamsmith · April 24, 2012

not that I'm aware of, no.
Odd, isn't it?

DWL-SDCA · April 24, 2012

It seems to me that this would be a great marketing tool for publishers...at least for academic ones. I've become spoiled with the ease of capturing journal article and whole book metadata.

adamsmith · April 24, 2012

most of the big publishers are now putting their edited volumes online - I know this for sure about Elsevier, OUP, and Springer, but I assume it's the same for others. So for newer book chapters going to the publisher works a lot of the time.

FHeimburger · April 24, 2012

The only place I can think of at the moment for chapters is CAIRN, and that's not much use outside the humanities in France.
That said, their data is not being captured correctly atm - see this example :
edited volume : http://www.cairn.info/les-intellectuels-et-l-occupation--9782746705401.htm
sample chapter : http://www.cairn.info/les-intellectuels-et-l-occupation--9782746705401-p-90.htm

Those chapters are appearing as journal articles - I presume the problem is with the data provided bw the portal?

adamsmith · April 24, 2012

yes, the metadata on the site starts with
<meta name="citation_journal_title" content="Mémoires/Histoire">
so Zotero sees this as a journal article. (same for the DC.type which is also journalArticle)

FHeimburger · April 24, 2012

I've dropped them a note to see if that can't be remedied.