ISI Workaround (bibtex option gone)
ISI Web of Knowledge just switched over to a new interface today, and in so doing seems to have removed the Save to Bibtex option that I used to use to get records into Zotero (http://libguides.princeton.edu/content.php?pid=31604&sid=1475015).
Records that come from CAB or other supported databases still work, but ones from searching the whole Web Of Knowledge come out in proprietary format that will export to Endnote (of course) as well as Procite and Reference Manager (http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS53B4/help/WOK/hp_results_export.html), but I can find no way to make them open in Zotero.
I can also save to: html, txt, or tab-delimited but I have no idea how to get any of those.
Since Zotero does not support all ISI translator's yet, does anyone know of a workaround to get these files into Zotero without using Endnote/Endnote Web as the filter?
Records that come from CAB or other supported databases still work, but ones from searching the whole Web Of Knowledge come out in proprietary format that will export to Endnote (of course) as well as Procite and Reference Manager (http://images.webofknowledge.com/WOKRS53B4/help/WOK/hp_results_export.html), but I can find no way to make them open in Zotero.
I can also save to: html, txt, or tab-delimited but I have no idea how to get any of those.
Since Zotero does not support all ISI translator's yet, does anyone know of a workaround to get these files into Zotero without using Endnote/Endnote Web as the filter?
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That said, when I use either the new or old interface I can still download to bibTeX. Using the new interface:
At the very bottom of the web page you will see "Output Record" Steps one and two. Select the information you want in Step 1. In the Step 2 area you should use the drop-down menu to "Save to other reference software" and select BibTeX. The ISI version of BibTeX will probably require some hand editing but, in my experience, it always has.
From the top of the web page you can jump to the controls I described by clicking on the "more options" link to the right of the EndNote Web, EndNote, and ReferenceID chiclets.
Save to BibTeX
This format is only available to customers who subscribe to Web of Science or Inspec.
The strange thing is that this section is not on the Help tab for the other databases that we have on the Web of Knowledge.
So I may have been imagining that the bibtext option ever existed for ISI Web of Knowledge (so maybe I need to start a new thread?).
What I am using is the ISI Web of Knowledge All Databases (which for us includes things like CAB, Web of Science among others etc...). Having all of these databases in one interface is a huge convenience, but not when it's impossible to put records into Zotero.
Just the CAB database is supported by Zotero, and records pulled from sub-databases that Zotero supports appear. But not all the records on the page.
At various points in the past I know for a fact I've done workarounds. I may have made up the bibtext one (I just thought it worked because of that link I shared above) but for instance I know I used to be able to trick it into exporting into an RIS file (for RefWorks I think) that Zotero could grab.
Now all it does is export into a proprietary format that will export to Endnote (of course).
Does anyone know of a workaround to get records from an All Databases ISI Web of Knowledge search into Zotero that does not involve using Endnote?
Web Of Knowledge come out in proprietary format, or html, txt, or tab-delimited but I have no idea how to get any of those.
I can provide screenshots if it would help, or make a new thread.
Restart Firefox after installing. After installing, it should be possible to use Import from clipboard on ISI-formatted data. I wasn't able to test this with the website, since I'm getting server errors. Hopefully those will pass when they finish the present maintenance.
The old records (from CAB etc...) still worked fine the normal way.
For other records I was able to use the "save to plain text" feature, then highlight them in notepad and use the Import From Clipboard.
This a a huge improvement for me. Thanks so much for working on it, and let me know if I can do anything to help test/improve it.
However, I did find that the ability to save to Zotero the "regular" (URL icon) way is available via some of the Web of Knowledge interfaces. I was able to do it via the search in the All Databases tab and via the Cited Reference Search in the Web of Science tab, but not via the regular search in the Web of Science tab.
Just an FYI that I went ahead and ran tests on a couple dozen more imports with the notepad method described above and they all worked fine.
Glad that the import is working for you. You may be able to mark records, then import them in batches to save time as well.
But I just submitted a patch to make Zotero intercept the ISI files when you click on "Save to Endnote", so you should be able to just click on that button and the reference will save correctly, starting in Zotero 2.1.9 (which, to judge by the rumblings on the forum, should be pretty soon).
Thanks kindly for this thread and potential future help! :-)
This is the latest version, and it should work for individual items. It has some issues with multiple items (results pages, tables of contents). Restart Firefox after installing.
As it turns out, after I did all that to provide a new ISI WoK translator file, and reloaded firefox, it still didn't work for me. ONce at a science paper summary page on WoS, I downloaded the file with the Endnote button, saved to/opened with Notepad, copied all the text, then tried to Import from Clipboard on Zotero, but got: "An error occurred while trying to import the selected file. Please ensure that the file is valid and try again." I also noticed, as an aside, that with the new translator, the URL icons are reversed: I now get the *paper* icon for a list of papers, and the *file folder* icon when I open a link to a single paper's info. If you would like concrete examples with pages, etc. for your troubleshooting purposes, or more about either of the above problems, I'd be happy to share (offline, so as not to bore everybody).
Also, possibly of general interest to those on the forum, the work-around I'm now using is to simply copy the DOI for the paper of interest and paste it directly into the window spawned by clicking "Add item by identifier" in Zotero. Almost as fast as the 1-click procedure we had a couple months ago before WoS changed everything.
However when I did a search on web of knowledge and clicked the icon in the corner of my browser it used to give me a check list of the papers I wanted to save, but now it just saves all on the page- very annoying and impractical i.e http://apps.webofknowledge.com/summary.do?SID=1APP772oLFJiC6L9o28&product=UA&qid=6&search_mode=GeneralSearch
By the way I am using google chrome and zotero stand alone.
How can I fix this? It used to work very well until few days ago,
Thanks