Couple of questions

[notalexnot]

Does Wispar require an institutional account to work correctly? I'm sorry if it's mentioned somewhere, I couldn't find enough information :)
If yes, is there any workaround? Since my uni is not in the list :/

Also, I want to suggest adding some more information in the README.md or during the app setup.

[Scriptbash]

Hi! No, the app does not require an account of any sorts!

The institutional access is only used to help access full articles locked behind paywalls. If an institution is selected, the link to the article is forwarded to the university's proxy. If the university is subscribed to the journal, the full article can be read.

So you can leave the setting to "no institution" and everything in the app will still work.

Got it, I'll try to improve the readme soon! As for more details during the app setup, I'm afraid people would skip through it if there is too much text. 🤔 Maybe I could add a page in the settings with some documentation in it. I could then add an extra screen during the setup where users could click on a button for more info and it would open the documentation page. What do you think?

Edit: If your university uses EZproxy, please consider adding their proxy in this database : https://github.com/tom5760/ezproxy-db
The app is taking the proxies from there :)

[notalexnot]

I see, it's just I get an error every time I try to search for journals: An error occurred while trying to search journals. About articles, I don't know if I'm not using good enough words since I only get No results found.

I agree about the skipping thing. I like the idea of a 'more info' page, since that's what I was looking for hehe :)

I don't think my uni uses EZProxy :(

[Scriptbash]

Hmm that's weird! Can you share some queries you tried? For journals, all the words entered must be included in a journal title to return a result. For example, if I typed "hydrology cryosphere", I will get no results since there is no journals with both words in their title. If I were to use each word separately, I would get results. That's a limitation by the API.

For articles, the keywords are kind of "ANDed" by the Crossref API. Were you using the "Title" field for searching? If so, you might want to try the "Bibliographic" field instead. It's in the "More option" section. This will look through all the metadata, article title, journal title, abstract , etc. so you might get better results! :)

Thanks for contributing to translations by the way! 😁

[notalexnot]

Sorry for taking some time, I was very busy. Seems like it was a DNS issue, it's now working fine! Thank you so much for the suggestions :D

[Scriptbash]

No problem at all! Happy to hear you got it working! I should add network access checks to provide a more accurate error message. One more item to my to-do list! 😆