At 05:57 PM 2/18/2009, Terry wrote:
. . .
We have been busy developing more flexible APIs and in the course of
that today we realised that we were including some records that
don't have feeds (and that don't appear in our web interface). We
will make sure that we tidy those up. We also appreciate that we
have some updating to do because of new launches and title
transfers. In the longer term we are looking to publisher-initiated
updates to our database via CrossRef.
On the flipside, are you aware that there are also feed URLs for
discontinued journals? Somehow a journal that stopped publishing in
1996 or 2000 doesn't seem very feed-worthy. (Most of the ones I
encountered were for ScienceDirect journals; publisher-initiated
updates aren't all they're cracked up to be if the publisher is
creating feeds across the board, regardless of whether there's any
new content to feed.)
Bob Duncan
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Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
Easton, PA 18042
dunc...@lafayette.edu
http://library.lafayette.edu/
