PLoS Journals translator not working

ajene
Hi, can't save to Zotero this PloS Genetics article:

http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000778?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosgenetics%2FNewArticles+%28PLoS+Genetics%3A+New+Articles%29&utm_content=Google+Reader

I went through all the steps described in th "troubleshooting translator issues" section but could not solve it. I never had sich a problem before, in fact i have PLoS Genetics articles saved in my library. In case it's useful, here's the report ID: 2036698556

Zotero recognizes the translator as "PLoS Journals".

I am using the latest zotero version (2.0b7.6) and Firefox 3.5 under Linux.


Thanks
  • mmcdowall
    I have found this problem when saving articles in both PLoS One and PLoS Computational Biology.

    I found that if you concatenate the URL to
    http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000778

    Which is prior to the extra text suggesting you linked from Google Reader (as I too had also done), the article then saves correctly.

    This is a bit fiddly, but gets the job done.

    Hope this helps.

    Mark
  • ajene
    Thanks mmcdowall, I just tried what you suggest, saving from here:

    http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000778?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plosgenetics%2FNewArticles+(PLoS+Genetics%3A+New+Articles)&utm_content=Google+Readerhttp://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000778

    And also from the raw url:

    http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000778


    But it doesn't work for me. When I report the error I get the following messages:

    [JavaScript Error: "TypeError: Zotero.CSL.Global._defaultTerms is undefined" {file: "file:///home/ajene/library/translators/PLoS%20Journals.js" line: 0}]

    [JavaScript Error: "TypeError: text.match(/(ER[^\n]*)([^\0]*)/) is null" {file: "file:///home/ajene/library/translators/PLoS%20Journals.js" line: 0}]

    Report ID: 272191958

    But then I check the PLoS Journals.js file and see nothing wrong with it. I guess the second error refers to this line:

    [...]
    text = text.replace(text.match(/(ER[^\n]*)([^\0]*)/)[2],"");//Remove stray M3-tag at the end of the RIS record
    [...]

    I tried clearing my cookies and cache data just in case...

    Is there something wrong with the translator, or is it just me...?

    Thanks a lot in advance!
  • tk2
    edited January 26, 2010
    I can save the article you mentioned but I've got another plos paper that fails to save with the latest version of zotero here:

    http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1000007#pgen.1000007.s002

    Can someone else try it and let me know if it saves for them?

    Rgds,
    Thomas
  • bp_216
    @Mark

    I've also had the same problem linking from Google Reader - thanks for the fix!

    Ben
  • froschi
    I also have the same problem trying to save a PLoS paper (from PLoS Pathogens in my case) linked from Google Reader. Removing the extra parameters solves the problem. The URL in question is http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.ppat.1001095?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plospathogens%2FNewArticles+%28Ambra+-+Pathogens+New+Articles%29

    Removing everything from (and including) the question mark makes Zotero happy.
  • ajlyon
    Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/PLoS Journals.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data), reload the page from the feed and start again.

    It should start working again. If this works for you, please post here so that I can submit this change to be pushed to all users.
  • froschi
    ajlyon,

    using the file you provided fixes the issue for me, and the entry gets added to Zotero correctly. Thanks!
  • ajlyon
    Changes committed to repository (https://www.zotero.org/trac/changeset/7328). This will go to users with the next version of Zotero or when Dan pushes it.
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