Browser connector not able to save pdfs from EBSCO 'full text finder'

  • LiborA
    Results from this URL is list of 4 articles, and I am able to import them to Zotero through connector without any problem.
  • praveens1
    Some issues. This link is opened from 'Full Text Finder' in ebsco discovery.

    Actually, it directs only to an article titled "An empirical exploration of the role of strategic and responsive corporate social responsibility in the adoption of different Green IT strategies" through sciencedirect.
    I don't know whether that initial parts 'http://resolver.ebscohost.com/openurl?sid=EBSCO' creates the problem.

    How can I share a screenshot.
  • LiborA
    How can I share a screenshot.
    Upload it on some server (Dropbox, Google drive etc.) and post here link
  • praveens1
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0q35s5gbpa32poy/AABr1OMmHoeP-vQbpxHJifZQa?dl=0

    Zotero connector is able to get pdf as shown in first fgure, when I am in ebsco discovery.
    I click the 'Full text finder' link shown in yellow and move to url posted above. Then, I get only screenshot option.

    Thanks a lot for your help.
  • LiborA
    edited July 27, 2017
    It works a little bit different for me, but it seems as a content of science direct on picture 2 is in an iframe. The connector has a problem with iframes.

    EDIT: What happens if you click on "open the page in new windows" in the yellow box on the top of the page on picture 2?
  • praveens1
    Hi
    When I click on that link it takes to science direct page (zotero_4.png in dropbox). I can use zotero connector from that page too.
    I am also attaching page source in the dropbox.
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0q35s5gbpa32poy/AABr1OMmHoeP-vQbpxHJifZQa?dl=0

    For sometime, pdf downloading my sciencedirect is not working for me. Only reference details are downloaded. What should I do for this?
    Thanks
  • dstillman
    PDF downloads on ScienceDirect are a separate issue — they changed their site in a way that makes downloading PDFs very difficult — but we have a fix coming.
  • LiborA
    How we can see in the txt file in your Dropbox, then web page on picture 2 is divided into frames. Current translators do not read data from iframes in generally, that known issue (https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/275317/#Comment_275317). But I think, the translator for EBSCOhost should have an exception from this behaviour (@adomasven am I right?)

    The problem with ScienceDirect is something different as mentioned Dan.
  • praveens1
    Thanks a lot for your responses.

    I may raise the issue with Ebscohost through institute administrator remove iframes.
    I will wait for the fix for science direct.

    Again thanks
    Praveen
  • dstillman
    I may raise the issue with Ebscohost through institute administrator remove iframes.
    This is actually a pretty standard and reasonable use of iframes.

    This one's a bit tricky for us, though. The problem is that 5.0 disables translator detection on iframes for performance reasons, and while we can set exceptions, the translator that actually needs to trigger in this case is the translator in the iframe (ScienceDirect in this case, but presumably that could be anything). But the way we've implemented this, the exception just triggers detection for that translator — in other words, it can cause the EBSCO translator's detection to run in all iframes on that site, but not the ScienceDirect translator's detection. We'll see if we can come up with a solution here. In the meantime, clicking to open the frame in a new tab is the best workaround.
  • praveens1
    Ebsco team solved the issue.
    Now after the page with "open the page in new windows" in the yellow box on the top the directly goes to the article page.

    Thanks a lot for all your help
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