Open Journal Systems translator

mark · July 2, 2012

I think I sometimes see OJS websites giving me correct Zotero imports, but often they don't work and give an uninformative error message.

For instance this one:
http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/dad/article/view/362
Zotero does detect something, but I get a "could not save item" message every time. What could that be, and is it fixable in the translator or is it a problem on the site side?

adamsmith · July 2, 2012

remember 6. here:
http://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues
Zotero correctly detects the DOI, but it's not registered with CrossRef
http://www.crossref.org/openurl/?pid=zter:zter321&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&&rft_id=info:doi/10.5087/dad&noredirect=true&format=unixref

However, the site also has embedded metadata that works. If you're using Zotero for Firefox, you can right-click on the URL-bar icon and select "Save to Zotero using 'Embedded Metadata'" - that does work. That option isn't yet available in the connectors.

It would be relatively quick to write a dedicated translator for the site, but someone would have to do it.

aurimas · September 17, 2012

I wrote a quick translator for OJS. It performs only slightly better over Embedded Metadata translator and does not support many sites (I could not find a way to identify most of the sites as OJS websites), but for the sites it does recognize, it will save you a right-click.

adamsmith · September 17, 2012

(the right-click option is also not available (yet?) in the connectors, so this is very much worth it).