Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Oddities

Ioannes · March 9, 2023

I'm hoping someone has worked through this some before and can explain the best methods to me. I'm looking for the most efficient way to import citations with the zotero connector from the stable archive versions of SEP articles. The "friends of the SEP" PDFs get imported with incorrect metadata--they do not even contain the title. The archive page comes in as a journal article with the correct author and title, but no editor or publication information. The active page comes in as a book section with all the metadata filled in correctly.

The problem is, of course, that you're supposed to cite the archive version which ought to have slightly different metadata from the active page, so none of these methods is ideal.

Is there a fix?

adamsmith · March 9, 2023

Yeah, don't import the PDF. What the URL for an archive version?

Ioannes · May 4, 2023

Active url: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-classical/

example Archive url: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/logic-classical/

adamsmith · May 5, 2023

We'll have a fix for this shortly, but note that saving from the active URL does reference the latest stable edition, both in the Edition field and via the archive URL.

adamsmith · May 20, 2023

OK, this is now fixed (though again, note that saving from the current version actually will be equivalent to saving the current archived version).