PLoS broken

michael-keizer · April 29, 2009

The translator for PLoS seems to be broken. I cannot add individual articles nor the latest issue as a whole to my library.

Am I the only person to have this issue?

Tjowens · April 29, 2009

Could you provide links that don't work? This article just worked for me.

http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000093

You might also try removing &ct=1 from the end of the article URL.

michael-keizer · April 29, 2009

Thanks, Trevor, I could download the article behind your link (after I removed the &ct=1 as you indicated). However, I still have problems with other articles. Two examples, both from PLoS Medicine:
- the editorial for the latest issue, at http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000072
- the full latest issue, at http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/browseIssue.action nor at http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/browseIssue.action?issue=info:doi/10.1371/issue.pmed.v06.i04 (two different URL for the same issue).

So perhaps this issue is limited to PLoS Medicine?

Thanks,
Michael

michael-keizer · April 29, 2009

Further to this: I have no problems at all with PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases either, so it really seems to be limited to PLoS Medicine.

Rintze · April 30, 2009

I think the problem with PLoS Medicine can be fixed by transferring this journal from the "PLoS Biology and Medicine" to the "PLoS Journals" translator. PLoS Biology clearly differs visually from the other PLoS sites, so I'd guess PLoS Medicine has recently changed its site layout to match the bulk of the PLoS sites.

That said, I get some errors with (all?) the PLoS journals, e.g. at:
http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000359
I think it is an issue with malformed RIS: there is a M3-tag after the ER-tag.

Gerbert · September 1, 2009

Today I stumbled upon a 'Could not save item" error while on the PLoS Biology site; i tried to save:

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000181

This might be the same Translator issue as described in this post.

Any ideas, anyone?

BTW, Rintze, you mentioned:
"I think the problem with PLoS Medicine can be fixed by transferring this journal from the "PLoS Biology and Medicine" to the "PLoS Journals" translator"

How do I move a journal to another translator?