JAMA Network Open not pulling PDF

ssmithtr · January 21, 2021

Recently (a month or two), when using Connector in Chrome to pull references from JAMA Network Open, the PDF file is not being automatically pulled into Zotero even though it is freely available, and often the Abstract isn't grabbed either. Is there a known fix other than manually downloading and importing the PDF? Is this a known issue that is being worked on?
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bwiernik · January 22, 2021

Can you give a specific URL? It’s likely that they updated the website layout and the Zotero translator needs to be updated.

ssmithtr · January 22, 2021

@bwiernik Sure. Here's one that I encountered today. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774707?utm_source=silverchair&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=article_alert-jamanetworkopen&utm_term=mostread&utm_content=olf-widget_01202021
Thank you.

adamsmith · January 22, 2021

JAMA has made a mess out of their site in a way that may be hard for Zotero to compensate. Browser are surprisingly good at ignoring such issues, so it _looks_ OK, but it breaks Zotero's ability to read the metadata, including the PDF's location.

I've reported this to them -- let's see if they fix it.

*In technical terms, they've inserted a display element (<div>) into the meta header causing all sorts of things to break. ,You can see the W3C HTML validator freak out here:
https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2774707 *

ssmithtr · January 22, 2021

@adamsmith Wow, ugly. Thank you for looking into it and making an attempt to get it fixed.