Errors with translators for databases MLA and LLBA on ProQuest platform

xsannp · November 23, 2017

Zotero 5.0.28, using the Firefox Connector 5.0.18:
The information that's dowloaded for MLA International Bibliography is not correct, all publication types (book, book chapters) are downloaded as journal articles. Authors are missing for all types, as are pages and for journals frequently also volume and/or issue.
Also for Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) on ProQuest, there are errors. Journal articles are ok, and books are downloaded as books but with the place and pages in the field for Publisher.

bwiernik · November 23, 2017

Can you post example URLs of the pages that aren't importing correctly?

xsannp · November 23, 2017

LLBA book:
https://search.proquest.com/llba/docview/1417553333/5C689F34A5CD42C6PQ/1
MLA book chapter:
https://search.proquest.com/mlaib/docview/742289692/B35E07CF83B1415APQ/3
MLA book:
https://search.proquest.com/mlaib/docview/1283274772/8A48674DBC6840FCPQ/1
MLA journal articles:
https://search.proquest.com/mlaib/docview/1900066845/C95CE7FF2BDB43B7PQ/1
https://search.proquest.com/mlaib/docview/54116629/C95CE7FF2BDB43B7PQ/1

bwiernik · November 23, 2017

LLBA:

Publisher vi+376 pp, Amsterdam: John Benjamins

This is a problem with the data supplied by ProQuest. You will need to contact them to correct it.

The other ones one of the people who writes the Zotero translators will need to check and comment on. (Note that the book chapter imports as a book, not a journal article, for me. The others import as journal articles.)

xsannp · December 11, 2017

Has anyone who writes Zotero translators been able to look into this, i.e. the part concerning MLA?

bwiernik · December 11, 2017

@adamsmith @zuphillip

dmaley · January 29, 2018

Hi,

Re: MLA International Bibliography

The translator issue is still not resolved. See:
https://search.proquest.com/mlaib/docview/1920311883/67DE2FAF4B4A4F11PQ/2.

When you click on the translator, you only get title, publisher and date. not the author, abstract, volume, issue, and page numbers.

dm

zuphilip · February 3, 2018

I can't access most of these links, because we don't have licensed these databases through ProQuest. However, I can access one example https://search.proquest.com/mlaib/docview/54116629/C95CE7FF2BDB43B7PQ/1 which is recognized correctly as a journal article and parsing of the author does also work for me.

dmaley · February 4, 2018

Yes, the article that you cite captures the info correctly. However, if you do an author search for Ernst Gerhardt, you should get seven hits - none of which capture the author, abstract, volume, issue, and page numbers.

https://search-proquest-com.librweb.laurentian.ca/mlaib/docview/1841141287/2BFBBA52E83E47F5PQ/3
https://search-proquest-com.librweb.laurentian.ca/mlaib/docview/1776640273/2BFBBA52E83E47F5PQ/5
https://search-proquest-com.librweb.laurentian.ca/mlaib/docview/913256337/2BFBBA52E83E47F5PQ/1

etc.

dm