JSTOR site translator not working

cartesian · February 4, 2007

Have JSTOR changed their URLs? I'm currently getting no icon on any JSTOR pages, either direct or through EZProxy.

gideon · February 6, 2007

For me it's just working great with JStor. Doesn't really help you, I know.

hmarcuse · November 21, 2007

I, too, have been having trouble with JStor. I've been using Zotero for over 6 months, and I have successfully imported jstor records in the past, but am no longer able to do so. My attempts bring up the "check for known translator issues" error message.
Has anything happened with the scraper?

sean · November 21, 2007

No problems on our end. Could you please send a URL that's not working?

dimik75 · November 21, 2007

Same problem here. It's not working either off- or on-campus. Here's a link

http://muse.lib.nccu.edu.tw:9797/MuseSessionID=9c6059943fa9547c734eac8b4cc1eeb/MuseHost=www.jstor.org/MusePath/search/AdvancedSearch?si=1&hp=25&q0=&f0=&c0=AND&q1=&f1=&c1=AND&q2=Andrew+J+Nathan&f2=au&c2=AND&q3=&f3=ti&wc=on&Search=Search&ar=on&sd=&ed=&la=

I don't have any problem with my library catalog.

Regards

Dimitri

dimik75 · November 23, 2007

Many thanks to the guys who solved the problem of the JSTOR site translator not working through my library.

miller99 · December 8, 2007

Hi...I seem to be having this same problem...I can import from other sites, but get a "check for known translator issues" error message. I just got Zotero, so I've never been able to download via Jstor, but I can from other places. Any ideas are greatly appreciated.

springchild74 · December 15, 2007

Hi, I am also having a problem finding the "translator" or an icon in URL bar to capture the information from JSTOR. Is this specific to the libraries that we use through which we get to JSTOR or is this the general problem with Zotero translator? Having this resolved will really help simplify my life. Please help...

tpbach · December 28, 2007

Hi,
I too cannot get Zotero to work with Jstor. The icon does not show up when I use these URLs:
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lemoyne.edu/view/00096407/sp040146/04x1543i/0?searchUrl=http%3a//www.jstor.org/search/BasicResults%3fhp%3d25%26si%3d1%26gw%3djtx%26jtxsi%3d1%26jcpsi%3d1%26artsi%3d1%26Query%3dpietism%26wc%3don&citationAction=save&frame=noframe&charset=u&currentResult=00096407%2bsp040146%2b04x1543i%2b0%2c7F&userID=c0e77cfa@lemoyne.edu/01c0a834654a6117211164cb&dpi=3&config=&viewContent=citation&citationPath=00096407-sp040146-04x1543i
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lemoyne.edu/search/BasicSearch?Query=pietism&si=1&hp=25&Search=Search&wc=on
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lemoyne.edu/cgi-bin/jstor/printpage/08852758/ap050041/05a00080?backcontext=results&action=download&backurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jstor.org%2Fsearch%2FBasicResults%3Fhp%3D25%26si%3D1%26gw%3Djtx%26jtxsi%3D1%26jcpsi%3D1%26artsi%3D1%26Query%3Dpietism%26wc%3Don
http://0-www.jstor.org.library.lemoyne.edu/cgi-bin/jstor/printpage/08852758/ap050041/05a00080/0.pdf?backcontext=results&dowhat=Acrobat&config=&userID=c0e77cfa@lemoyne.edu/01c0a834654a6117211164cb&0.pdf
Thanks very much and this is a fantastic resource
Tom

dstillman · December 28, 2007

Zotero currently only supports one version of EZproxy proxy servers. If your university or institution uses another proxy server or an incompatible version of EZproxy, you won't be able to use Zotero's auto-saving functionality yet. Unfortunately, the URLs provided above are not EZproxy URLs.

There are a couple open tickets to add support for other proxy servers and EZproxy versions, and we hope to address those soon.

szarka · January 18, 2008

I'm currently seeing a weirder problem with JSTOR. I do get the icon in the address bar when viewing the main page for the article, and clicking on the icon imports the citation with no problems. The weird part is that doing so seems to *also* add the citation to my queue on the JSTOR site itself, as if I had clicked on "SAVE CITATION" in the page.

Not having groveled through the code, I don't quite see how this could happen. But I've tested it and that is, in fact, what seems to be happening...

szarka · January 20, 2008

About the above, it also appears that this problem only happens if there aren't already citations saved.

smodomly · March 5, 2008

I think my URL is one of the ezproxy ones that should work with JSTOR, and it definitely used to, but recently I haven't been getting that handy little icon to import source from JSTOR. This is one of the URLs I just tried it with:
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.utexas.edu/view/0010096x/ap020213/02a00040/2?searchUrl=http%3a//www.jstor.org/search/BasicResults%3fhp%3d25%26si%3d1%26gw%3djtx%26jtxsi%3d1%26jcpsi%3d1%26artsi%3d1%26Query%3dhorner%252C%2bbruce%2breconceiving%2bcomposition%26wc%3don&frame=noframe&currentResult=0010096x%2bap020213%2b02a00040%2b0%2cDFFFDDFF03&userID=80533f15@utexas.edu/01c0a848732255118818b59ee&dpi=3&config=jstor

I love Zotero, except for this. Help?

margot · May 25, 2008

Something really strange is happening to me with JSTOR. After a search I get the Zotero folder icon *only* on the first page, the second and subsequent ones do not let me save any items. Example:

http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.unimelb.edu.au/action/doAdvancedResults?hp=25&la=&gw=jtx&jcpsi=1&artsi=1&q0=%22music+appreciation%22&f0=all&c0=AND&sd=1990&ed=2008&jo=&si=26&jtxsi=26

Thanks for your feedback.

gombin · August 18, 2008

Hi,

I'm using Zotero 1.0.7 (and love it !), with FF3.

My access to JSTOR is provided by an institution, so that the URLs are something like :

https://acces-distant.sciences-po.fr/http/www.jstor.org/...

First JSTOR translator doesn't recognize this site. So I modified the 'target', and now it recognizes the pages correctly.

Then I had to modify a lign in the code (via Scaffold) at the RIS translation stage : I added 'http/www.jstor.org/' in the Zotero.Utilities.HTTP.doPost, which gives :
Zotero.Utilities.HTTP.doPost(host+"http/www.jstor.org/action/downloadCitation?format=refman&direct=true",downloadString, function(text) {
Indeed, without that, I get a 404 error.

After that, all seems to work smoothly - but actually, nothing get saved in my library ! (it's not a 3rd-part cookie problem, as I run Zotero 1.0.7)

Anyone has an idea of what's the matter (and ideally how to fix it!) ?

Thanks !

viverechristus · March 13, 2009

I have the same issue as gombin (Zotero won't recognize the page as translatable when it's displaying via the link my university uses, but if I get the stable link, no problem). I think Zotero should really address this.

adamsmith · March 13, 2009

this is a proxy issue - post the entire link that's displayed.
Also, this is solved in Zotero 1.5b, so you might consider switching.

billi · May 1, 2009

Following is the patch that fixes the problem reported by margot:

Problem:
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In case the search return several pages only the first one is recognized by Zotero as a valid target.

Patch:
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--- JSTOR.js.orig 2009-05-01 18:52:27.000000000 +0300
+++ technion/zotero/translators/JSTOR.js 2009-05-01 19:07:52.000000000 +0300
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{"translatorID":"d921155f-0186-1684-615c-ca57682ced9b","translatorType":4,"label":"JSTOR","creator":"Simon Kornblith, Sean Takats, Michael Berkowitz and Eli Osherovich","target":"https?://[^/]*jstor\\.org[^/]*/(action/(showArticle|doBasicSearch|doAdvancedSearch|doLocatorSearch)|stable/|pss/)","minVersion":"1.0.0b4.r1","maxVersion":null,"priority":100,"inRepository":true,"lastUpdated":"2009-01-28 18:10:00"}
+{"translatorID":"d921155f-0186-1684-615c-ca57682ced9b","translatorType":4,"label":"JSTOR","creator":"Simon Kornblith, Sean Takats, Michael Berkowitz and Eli Osherovich","target":"https?://[^/]*jstor\\.org[^/]*/(action/(showArticle|doBasicSearch|doAdvancedSearch|doLocatorSearch|doAdvancedResults|doBasicResults)|stable/|pss/)","minVersion":"1.0.0b4.r1","maxVersion":null,"priority":100,"inRepository":true,"lastUpdated":"2009-01-28 18:10:00"}

function detectWeb(doc, url) {
var namespace = doc.documentElement.namespaceURI;
@@ -108,4 +108,4 @@
Zotero.done();
});
}
-}
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+}