Author not importing from MLA
Today, I find that when I use the direct import (from ProQuest MLA), the author field does not come over at all. It will come over if I save the items as an RIS file, but not if I import using the yellow folder icon. The items come in, any associated PDFs come in, but not the author field. Yesterday, authors were importing just fine.
The RIS file is fine, and imports into both Zotero and EndNote. Why won't the more efficient method of direct export work?
The RIS file is fine, and imports into both Zotero and EndNote. Why won't the more efficient method of direct export work?
I wonder if this problem is related to the fact that the Zotero connector only works for MLA about half the time. When it doesn't work, it imports a screenshot of the page of results in MLA (which is useless).
These problems make it difficult to teach Zotero in literature classes without qualifying many steps with comments like "sometimes this works." The connector is a marvelous tool--when it works. But I'm beginning to think that trying to use just makes more work because part of the time, you have to re-import with the RIS file, and the other half of the time you have to insert the authors by hand.
I took some screenshots, but they can't be posted here.