Zotero not importing Authors' names, date, publisher etc. from Google books.

rindite · December 9, 2019

Till yesterday Zotero was importing all these. But stopped all of a sudden!! Please help!.

zuphilip · December 9, 2019

Can you give an example URL? / CC @adamsmith

rindite · December 9, 2019

Sure. If you go to the following link and try importing the reference to Zotero using Chrome connector, it only imports Book title and Google book link. I have to manually enter authors' names, year of publication, publisher name, Publishing location, edition, etc. Till yesterday, it was automatically doing all these (except edition number and publisher location).

https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xylqIkDQ-gEC&pg=PA111&dq=clinical+psychology&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwidzdfqiKjmAhXNF3IKHejiBPoQ6AEIQTAD#v=onepage&q=clinical psychology&f=false

Actually, this issue is not specific to a particular book link. Any book you choose, the issue remains the same.

I don't know how to CC a user here. Sorry.

rindite · December 9, 2019

Actually, this issue is not specific to a particular book link. Any book you choose, the issue remains the same.

rindite · December 9, 2019

Hi... waiting for your reponse.

rindite · December 9, 2019

I have also tried to import using Firefox connector. The same issue exists.

adamsmith · December 9, 2019

(will have a fix out shortly, sorry about that)

zuphilip · December 9, 2019

Thank you for the link. I just tried the same book in the German Google Books (where I am logged in) https://books.google.de/books?id=xylqIkDQ-gEC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Contemporary+Clinical+Psychology&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYyMCt2KjmAhVLUZoKHb6jAdkQ6AEIMTAB#v=onepage&q=Contemporary Clinical Psychology&f=false and there it works fine. We will have to investigate this further. (The mentioning with the CC should have already worked.)

rindite · December 9, 2019

Yes. I have checked your link and it works. Thank you for the temporary solution.

I am in Australia, and the problem remains because it automatically redirects to ".com.au." I hope you will fix the issue soon.

Thank you once again!

adamsmith · December 9, 2019

OK @rindite this is now fixed and should start working for you again after updating your translators -- I think just doing so from the advanced tab of the Chrome and/or Firefox connector preferences is all that's needed.

rindite · December 9, 2019

Oh, ok! Wow! That’s quick!

Did you mean I have to do something in my Chrome settings? Or it is fixed from your end and I don't have to do anything?

adamsmith · December 9, 2019

It is fixed on our end, but if you want Zotero to update to use the fix right away you need to right-click on the "Save to Zotero" button in Chrome (on any page), select "Options", then click on "Advanced" on the left and on "Update Translators" towards the bottom of the screen.

Google books should then work normally (and in fact better) again.

rindite · December 9, 2019

Awesome! Than you very much! It works now.

May I ask you one more question?

Is there a way to automatically import the publisher's location. I manually add this because Zotero does not import this info to its reference.

Thank you.

adamsmith · December 9, 2019

Not from Google Books I'm afraid -- they simply don't have/store that info. If you scroll down on the book's landing page (https://books.google.com.au/books?id=xylqIkDQ-gEC&dq=clinical+psychology&source=gbs_navlinks_s ) to "Bibliographic Information", you'll also find it missing.

If you use e.g. library catalogs for import, those would typically include the publisher location.

zuphilip · December 9, 2019

For the data by library catalogues you can also copy the ISBN, e.g. 9780470872116, into the text field of the magic wand in Zotero and press enter.

rindite · December 10, 2019

Thank you guys, appreciate it!