On Jul 10, 2007, at 4:27 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 10, 2007, at 01:17PM, "Rajarshi Guha" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, having recently moved to OS X, I've greatly benefited from >> Bibdesk. Thanks to the developers for a very neat tool. >> >> One of the really useful features has been the ability to get refs >> from Pubmed through Bibdesk. >> >> I was wondering what would be involved in accessing Web of Science >> through Bibdesk. Obviously this would be restricted to users who have >> access to WoS (usually via an institution) - but I'd be willing to >> look into this, if somebody could point me in the right direction. > > We search PubMed by crafting URLs with an embedded query. If you > can find a URL/query specification for searching WoS and retrieving > results, we can add support for it (we already parse the ISI output > files). I've looked for a programmatic API for searching WoS, but > it doesn't appear to exist.
Ah, well just got to dig a little further :) I looked into this in February, hoping to implement it this summer. It hasn't happened, but here is what I know. There is a web services API and they do accept some kinds of 'incoming SFX openurls' (I have a word doc spec for that, but of course that needs the WoS ID number so see below. I went so far as to speak with someone from Thompson, who was actually very helpful. I'm happy to give the contact to someone seeking to build this but not on a public mailing list, so if one of the devs wants to email me I'll give the details. Anyway here's the web services interface: http://scientific.thomson.com/support/faq/webservices/ In particular: http://scientific.thomson.com/ts/media/faq/webservices.zip As I saw it the difficulty in using their webservices is that they expect queries to come from an authorized IP address. However when I spoke with the guy I asked whether they would work if they came through a web proxy from an authorized IP address. he thought they would. So basically I thought we could do it by having people go via the web proxy at their universities, just as people do for getting journal access via the OpenURL script at the moment. Hope this helps, James ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
