proquest (APS--American Periodicals Series Online) was working for me a few days ago, but not now. anyone else experiencing the same thing? -joshua

A new Zotero user complained about Proquest - I would like to make a good impression as folks arrive back on campus.
I arrived at this improvement in the the proquest translator, but it is still not complete, as the journal name is not found, and so the type is not arrived at properly.
the title and author are no longer in td element, but are not in DIV elements.
the additional information is no longer inside tbody, just table.
// changed from td, to div.
var xpath = '//div[@class="headerBlack"]/strong';
newItem.title = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null).iterateNext().textContent;

// Authors
var xpath = '//div[@class="textMedium"]/a/em';
var elmts = doc.evaluate(xpath, doc, nsResolver, XPathResult.ANY_TYPE, null);
while(elmt = elmts.iterateNext()) {
// there are sometimes additional tags representing highlighting
var author = elmt.textContent;
if(author) {
newItem.creators.push(Zotero.Utilities.cleanAuthor(author, "author"));
}
}
// changed from ../tbody/td
// Other info
var xpath = '//table[@id="tableIndexTerms"]/tr';
I hope this can help debug this problem.

Thanks for the heads up. ProQuest now supports RIS export, so we're currently updating our translator to use it instead (more reliable than screen-scraping). Thanks again.

i've also tried since Aug 20 and had same experience as zpinhead. For what it's worth, Proquest is really impt for Engl. grad students; i'm a grad student at Penn eager to encourage my peers to adopt Zotero, and i'd love to be able to show them how well it could work with Proquest. So--another request--please make RIS for Proquest a priority! thanks, joshua

The ProQuest translator has been fixed and pushed into the repository. Installations of Zotero will automatically update within 24 hours, or you can manually update your copy in the Zotero preferences.

here is some output from debugging.
15:52:32 ===>Returned item:
'itemType' => "undefined"
'creators' ...
'0' ...
'lastName' => "KirkWhite"
'firstName' => "T"
'creatorType' => "author"
'notes' ...
'0' ...
'note' => "Black-white wealth inequality is much greater than black-white earnings inequality in the United States. The existing empirical literature has not been able to fully explain the wealth gap. This paper investigates how much of current black-white income and wealth inequality can be explained by initial conditions at Emancipation and nearly 100 years of segregated schools. A two-sector model with group-specific human capital accumulation and school expenditure differences can explain the path of black-white convergence in earnings over the past 130 years. The model also reproduces the fact that black-white wealth ratios remain much lower than black-white earnings ratios. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT] "
'tags' ...
'0' => "Income inequality"
'1' => "Wealth"
'2' => "Emancipation of slaves"
'3' => "Economic models"
'4' => "Studies"
'seeAlso' ...
'attachments' ...
'0' ...
'url' => "http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1320985481&Fmt=7&clientId=8424&RQT=309&VName=PQD "
'title' => "Initial conditions at Emancipation: The long-run effect on black-white wealth and earnings inequality"
'publicationTitle' => "Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control"
'date' => "Oct 2007"
'ISBN' => "01651889"
'ISSN' => "01651889"
'volume' => "31"
'issue' => "10"
'pages' => "3370"
'url' => "http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1320985481&Fmt=7&clientId=8424&RQT=309&VName=PQD "
'complete' => function(...){...}
'repository' => "ProQuest"
<===(string)
15:52:32 ===>Translation successful<===(string)

It seems to me that the type should not be undefined.

I cobbled in some logic, in parseRIS,
....
translator.setHandler("itemDone", function(obj, item) {
var cre = new Array();
if (item.ISSN) { item.itemType = 'journalArticle';}
else { if (item.issue) item.itemType = 'journalArticle';}
...
to set this, as I cannot decipher the RIS logic for setting the type.

Looks great! I will try through ez proxy tonite!
Thanks,
Rick

Hello again--i've updated to 1.0.0rc4, but still can't get the pdfs to link automatically from proquest. anyone else having this issue? oddly, i WAS able to get pdfs to link in July, when lots of other folks were having trouble....

i tried project muse; no luck there either.

thanks, joshua

I, too, find the way proquest works less than optimal. After two unsuccessful attempts, I finally got data to import, but fields are missing. Why are there no "School" or "Pages" fields in the record type Thesis?

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31031461&referer=brief_results
This is a doctoral dissertation, but I guess what is going on is that worldcat has it stored in the record form "book"? It looks like a number of the fields aren't importing.

This thread is 2.5 years old, and the problems it discusses were fixed at that time.

Post a new thread with some sample URLs that aren't working for you, and the error message from "Report Errors" in the gear menu.