If you're looking to compile your own data, Zotero is a great way to do it and provides an API. I recently moved our faculty publications database into it.
If you're looking to compile data, though I hate to suggest it, is there an API for google scholar? It's not a perfect resource, but for humanities and social sciences, I've found some publications for our faculty that they hadn't given me themselves. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College > On May 20, 2015, at 11:33 AM, "Bornheimer, Bee" <eborn...@qualcomm.com> wrote: > > Possibly the Mendeley API? > http://dev.mendeley.com/getting_started/common_tasks.html > > It might also make a difference to know the domain in which these authors > publish. Scopus indexes primarily scientific, technical, medical content. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Heller, Margaret > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:27 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author > > I've used the arXiv API for a similar purpose: > http://arxiv.org/help/api/index. > > Margaret Heller > Digital Services Librarian > Loyola University Chicago > 773-508-2686 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Pikas, Christina K. > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:22 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author > > The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex > Armstrong > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author > > Hi list, > > What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly > publications by author? > > I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with > other information about each author. > > Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. > > CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. > > Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or > import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. > That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above > with their public (as opposed to their member) API. > > Any other ideas or thoughts? > > Best, > Alex Armstrong
