Problem with Google Scholar

andbusch_uos
I cannot save entries from google scholar anymore. (Example: http://scholar.google.de/scholar.bib?q=info:tm30XdgFPPwJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&hl=en&as_sdt=2000&ct=citation&cd=0 )

I deactivated all plugins, checked the versions of firefox (3.6.8) and zotero (2.0.3) and updated the translators but still it wont work. All older postings (like http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/12502/ ) in this forum about errors in the translator for google scholar should allready have found their way into the translator-updates, so I'm not sure how to fix this problem.

The error-report shows: JavaScript Error: "translator called select items with no items"

Any ideas how to fix this?
  • fbennett
    The page under your link is a raw BibTeX entry. While that's what the Google Scholar translator uses to acquire metadata, the translator is not (currently) able to scrape them directly, when they are displayed on-screen.

    The design of the translator (currently) is to get things from the search list (one screen before the bibtex) using the multiples tick-box list in Zotero.

    If you had your Google Scholar preferences set to acquire EndNote data (under Scholar Preferences), that would give you an "Import into EndNote" link, and cause immediate download of metadata when it is clicked. When bibtex is set as your default on the site, you'll get an "Import into BibTeX" link, and the download will not automatically happen.

    This can be made a little smoother in the translator, but for the moment, does that fit with what you're seeing?
  • andbusch_uos
    Ok, it works on the search list, but I remember the last time I added items to my zotero library (about one or two months ago) it also worked for the BibTex-view... must have changed since then. Thanks for the help!

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