Hindawi Publishing Corporation open access journals
Hi,
Just to let you know that trying to capture information on any journal published by Hindawi gives an error.
They publish several open access journals, like:
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
etc.
Try for instance: (an article from EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems)
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/es/2008/793919.html
or
doi:10.1155/2008/793919
Is there any solution?
Just to let you know that trying to capture information on any journal published by Hindawi gives an error.
They publish several open access journals, like:
EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
Journal of Artificial Evolution and Applications
etc.
Try for instance: (an article from EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems)
http://www.hindawi.com/journals/es/2008/793919.html
or
doi:10.1155/2008/793919
Is there any solution?
1) Don't create redundant threads.
2) This is how you report bugs. The core Zotero developers read every post. They do not have time to fix things like this.
3) Your priorities are not necessarily the same as everyone else's. Either find someone to fix the translator or be at the mercy of the Zotero community members who volunteer their time to fix translators (even on sites they don't personally use).
Please take a moment to write to Hindawi Publishing and ask that they make journal metadata available in COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) or unAPI. Implementing this for my own online bibliographic database was trivial -- only two or three hours of programming.
Information about how publishers can make journal article information available to Zotero can be found at:
http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/how_to_write_a_zotero_translator_plusplus
If Zotero users take the time to ask publishers to make their data available in a standard format, then we will all benefit. I wrote to Hindawi just a few weeks ago with the same request. I also wrote to the journal editor. I sent a polite request that 1) explained my data needs; 2) how Zotero makes it easy to add journal articles to an author's database and to cite those articles in a manuscript; and 3) how it is less likely for a citation to contain errors if the author doesn't need to enter the information by hand. I suggested that authors may be more likely to cite articles that don't require great effort to include. I pointed out that, even if the influence of easier metadata importing is small, this could improve a journal's impact factor.
Again, please write to Hindawi and to any other publisher or database provider that doesn't make it simple to bring their journal article data into Zotero.
Stilllman, I'm guessing that you're referring to my other post today where I listed the url and report id. I was simply trying to follow Zotero's directions for reporting a translator bug. I thought this thread was being ignored by developers because it didn't have the url and report id, since these are specifically requested on this site: http://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues. Sorry for messing everything up.
I've removed the Hindawi translator from the repository-- hopefully Dan can push this change to all users soon.
In the meantime, you can just delete the translator from the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).
Thanks!
Additionally, some translator changes are sent to clients when they request translator updates (by default, every 24 hours). Not all changes are distributed this way, but high-impact ones usually are. This is the pushing I was talking about-- I believe that only Dan Stillman makes the call on what to actively push to clients.
If Dan pushes the change, it should show up there in some way. The last step of pushing changes is not a transparent process, but we're a small community here, so you can always offer a gentle reminder here on the forums if an important change is languishing on the trunk.
Their own citation guidelines do include that data, and the DOI seems to be missing as well.
--
"How to Cite this Article
Fei Kang, Junjie Li, and Sheng Liu, “Combined Data with Particle Swarm Optimization for Structural Damage Detection,” Mathematical Problems in Engineering, vol. 2013, Article ID 416941, 10 pages, 2013. doi:10.1155/2013/416941"
If it's a bit more complex, I'm working on a mapping framework that would streamline import/export translators writing. Should have it done by the end of the week.
Edit: Ooops. Was looking in the wrong place. My bad.
The DOI I wish they put into the header - that's quite standard as citation_doi - but otherwise we can just construct it as 10.1155/<volume>/articleid
I'm Dalia ElKhatib and I work in Hindawi Publishing Corporation. I'm contacting you about the issue above, and we are ready to apply any updates that can help.
We are sorry for not offering help before, but it was the first time that we hear about the issue.
Regards,
Dalia ElKhatib
Really the main thing that'd be helpful would be if the DOI for articles could be included in the metadata in the page header (like you already do for most other information) in the form
<meta name="citation_doi" content="10.1155/2013/416941"/>
Let me know if that's possible - if not we can work around it as I describe above, but having the DOI provided by you would be more reliable.
Thanks,
Dalia ElKhatib
Check and in case anything is missing update me, and we will fix it.
Regards,
Dalia ElKhatib
I've notice that you only include the last author in the meta tags - is it possible to change that? Zotero will understand a number of ways of listing authors in meta tags - including multiple citation_author tags or one citation_authors tag with ; separated authors etc.
If this isn't possible we can work around it, but it'd be great if you could include this in the data.
Sorry didd't see you message before
We have fixed that. Please check.
Regards,
Dalia