LexisNexis Academic Translator

sdspieg · April 28, 2018

Is this one working for anybody? Because it isn't for me... I only see a 'Webpage with snapshot' page icon in my Chrome browser instead of the 'Save to Zotero' yellow-folder-icon I was expecting...

bwiernik · April 28, 2018

Are you using Zotero or Juris-M?

Can you give a specific URL?

fbennett · April 28, 2018

(The distinction is important for support triage, but the translators in the two are identical, and the translator code is closely aligned.)

sdspieg · April 28, 2018

Zotero. And see here

sdspieg · May 7, 2018

Any news on this anybody?

fbennett · May 7, 2018

Headed up to Uni soon, I can take a look at it today.

sdspieg · May 7, 2018

Thanks Frank!

zuphilip · May 7, 2018

I started to work on that: https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/1643

However, there is a newer interface named "Nexis Uni" or simply "Nexis" and the old interface still named "LexisNexis Academic". Which one do you use at your universities?

fbennett · May 7, 2018

I did take a look, and grew very sleepy trawling through their layers of framesets, inscrutable URLs and JS-triggered popups. They work very hard on opacity at Wexis - and @zuphilip will be better able to sort through the maze than I could.

fbennett · May 7, 2018

(And if this service breaks, it's not on anyone involved in Zotero, as the pages are something of a monument to obfuscation.)

fbennett · May 7, 2018

@zuphilip Here at Nagoya, it's still "LexisNexis Academic."

sdspieg · May 7, 2018

I now seem to have access to both. What has history taught you about how long it might take to fix it? Or to make a new one for the LexisNexis Uni?

adamsmith · May 7, 2018

LexisNexis Uni is going to be a lot more robust. My only worry there is how well snapshots will work (though on the plus side we might be able to get PDFs), but the metadata scraping is going to be a _lot_ easier.

sdspieg · May 7, 2018

Ok, I'll leave it in all of your able hands :) And as always - thanks for your efforts!

charlespetersen · November 11, 2018

Any word on this? Is there something I can download to make Nexis Uni compatible with Zotero? I'm using Firefox. Thanks!

sdspieg · January 7, 2019

Still interested too!

jelkebosma · April 19, 2022

Hello! I'm also definitely interested. My university switched to Nexis Uni, urls are formatted as follows: https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1516831&crid=164a6f83-9e9b-4793-954f-a42bf42078cb&pddocfullpath=/shared/document/news/urn:contentItem:55PX-2JW1-DYRY-N2HV-00000-00&pdcontentcomponentid=259062&pdteaserkey=sr4&pditab=allpods&ecomp=szznk&earg=sr4&prid=f91f31c5-e257-412f-8911-4d2d51bcd89c
From what I can see all required data to correctly set ItemType, author, publication, date is present. Let me know if I can help with providing access to the html files,