Upgrade StorageLoC not working with ISBN in magic wand field?
Hello -
It appears that no ISBNs are being returned from the Library of Congress when inputting ISBNs through the magic wand in either the stand-alone or Firefox versions. If I go to http://catalog.loc.gov/ and enter an ISBN a record will be returned, but the magic wand search is reporting no records found via LoC.
A little background: I was originally having difficulty with getting any items to be returned after entering the ISBN into the magic wand field. Poking on the forums and turning on logging showed that while WorldCat was spitting back the correct book, Zotero would lose the reference at some point in the process. This seems to have been related to the WorldCat proxy set up at my institution, and by manually going to worldcat.org and selecting the "vanilla" version (and telling it not to ask me again) the wand has been able to find items via ISBN.
But in looking at the log after this change, it was showing that the LoC lookup, which is first in priority, wasn't returning anything at all.
I don't seem to have a proxy relationship to the LoC, so I am guessing that something else is at work here.
Steps to reproduce:
1.) Open Zotero (either stand-alone or in Firefox)
2.) Click the magic wand
3.) Enter "0520062280"
4.) "Acting in the Cinema" should be returned
5.) Check the log and confirm that the LoC lookup failed and the source used was WorldCat
6.) Go to http://catalog.loc.gov/ and enter "0520062280" into the search field at the top of the page
7.) Confirm that the LoC returns the same book.
(http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=0520062280&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=100&hist=1&type=quick)
If there is something that I am doing wrong, or if I can provide more information to assist in troubleshooting, please let me know.
(Obviously since importing bibliographic information is still possible it isn't a huge catastrophe - the LoC information, in my limited experience, tends to be better.)
It appears that no ISBNs are being returned from the Library of Congress when inputting ISBNs through the magic wand in either the stand-alone or Firefox versions. If I go to http://catalog.loc.gov/ and enter an ISBN a record will be returned, but the magic wand search is reporting no records found via LoC.
A little background: I was originally having difficulty with getting any items to be returned after entering the ISBN into the magic wand field. Poking on the forums and turning on logging showed that while WorldCat was spitting back the correct book, Zotero would lose the reference at some point in the process. This seems to have been related to the WorldCat proxy set up at my institution, and by manually going to worldcat.org and selecting the "vanilla" version (and telling it not to ask me again) the wand has been able to find items via ISBN.
But in looking at the log after this change, it was showing that the LoC lookup, which is first in priority, wasn't returning anything at all.
I don't seem to have a proxy relationship to the LoC, so I am guessing that something else is at work here.
Steps to reproduce:
1.) Open Zotero (either stand-alone or in Firefox)
2.) Click the magic wand
3.) Enter "0520062280"
4.) "Acting in the Cinema" should be returned
5.) Check the log and confirm that the LoC lookup failed and the source used was WorldCat
6.) Go to http://catalog.loc.gov/ and enter "0520062280" into the search field at the top of the page
7.) Confirm that the LoC returns the same book.
(http://catalog.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&Search_Arg=0520062280&Search_Code=GKEY^*&CNT=100&hist=1&type=quick)
If there is something that I am doing wrong, or if I can provide more information to assist in troubleshooting, please let me know.
(Obviously since importing bibliographic information is still possible it isn't a huge catastrophe - the LoC information, in my limited experience, tends to be better.)
If that doesnt' work, we'll need a debug ID for that attempt:
http://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output
Debug ID is D405894634
Thanks for looking into this. Let me know how else I can assist.
http://lx2.loc.gov:210/LCDB?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=bath.ISBN=0520062280&maximumRecords=1
into the address bar of your browser?
Your version of Zotero will automatically update within 24hs, or you can update manually using the "Update Now" button in the "General" tab of the Zotero preferences.
Any further problems let us know & thanks for reporting
perhaps I have the same problem, but updating did not work. I have the current version of Zotero, but all ISBN (US books, German Books, old books, newer books) that I try to import with the magic wand function produce the error the nothing can be found. Report ID D722741196.
I would be glad if somebody could help me since I use Zotero almost everyday for my academic work and it is really fantastic.
<zs:searchRetrieveResponse><zs:version>1.1</zs:version>
<zs:diagnostics>
<diag:diagnostic>
<diag:uri>info:srw/diagnostic/1/2</diag:uri>
<diag:details>load_balance: no available targets</diag:details>
<diag:message>System temporarily unavailable</diag:message>
</diag:diagnostic>
</zs:diagnostics>
</zs:searchRetrieveResponse>
WorldCat should have worked though... I think we've seen this URL thing before. Not sure about the timing of the hidden browser destruction. Maybe it's too early, which would make
document.location = null(edit: that's actually href attribute of an anchor). I'll see if I can reproduce. Not entirely sure why done is being called after an error is thrown.sorry for not answering earlier: I was busy because of my workload. I now tried to deactivate all plugins and addons except Zotero. The result was, unfortunately, the same: Report ID D2000321915. ISBN search does not work. If I use DOIs to import data everything is fine.
Would you advice to use the latest version of Firofox? My university did install Firofox esr update channel. but I think I could switch.
Thank you anyway.
9781451648539
I'd expect that to work since it goes straight to LoC and that shouldn't have the same issue (there was an intermittent glitch with add by identifier, so make sure you're running Zotero 4.0.21.2 (the .2 is critical in this case).
That doesn't address the actual problem, but makes sure we're not looking at something else. Beyond that, if you could find a way to at least test with the current Firefox version to make sure that this is indeed limited to Firefox 24ESR that'd be very helpful. The ESR releases are specifically for universities and similar institutions, so I wouldn't say we advise switching to the regular release circle in general--it'd just be good to know for us for troubleshooting.
checked Zotero instructions, but did not find icon for adding ISBN etc.
forum disucssion mentions Zotero update, but can't find way to check my version. I'm using is as Firefox addon, I believe.
Any suggestins?
Beyond that, do you have a sample ISBN you tried?
Example of a non-working ISBN : 2702710891
It shows in Worldcat though :
http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=2702710891&qt=owc_search
I think that problem with ISBN started no later than this summer.
BTW I use Zotero v. 4.0.22 with Firefox (v. 24.8.0 ESR)