Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Microsoft Academic Search leans heavily toward scholarly publications in Computer Science, FYI. Great for that topic, though. Amanda L. French, Ph.D. Director, Digital Research Services University Libraries, Virginia Tech Phone: (540) 231-1108 Jabber: alfre...@im.vt.edu Twitter: @amandafrench Skype: amandafrenchphd On 5/21/15 9:27 AM, Alex Armstrong wrote: Thanks for the responses; keep them coming, if you have other ideas. It's hard to demarcate domains, but my userbase consists largely of librarians and liberal arts faculty. I wasn't at all aware of Microsoft Academic Search. Their content looks thorough, though it doesn' include books: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#5 snip
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Thanks for catching that. I haven't done much testing yet. Send a pull request? Jason On May 24, 2015 10:59 PM, Wataru Ono ono.wataru.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thank you for your kind advice using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget In the case of ['work-external-identifiers'] is null, It is an error! 81 line： var extids = value['work-external-identifiers']['work-external-identifier']; ＿ 小野 亘 (Ono, Wataru) E-Mail: ono.wataru.p...@gmail.com （業務用: onow...@u-gakugei.ac.jp） @wonox http://orcid.org/-0002-6398-9317 東京学芸大学附属図書館（教育研究支援部学術情報課） Tel: 042-329-7217 Fax: 042-323-5994 2015-05-20 23:16 GMT+09:00 Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu: Hi again. Here are some examples implementing the ORCID API: using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget a Ruby client for Public and Member: https://github.com/jstirnaman/BibApp/blob/kumc/lib/orcid_client.rb Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: 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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi, Thank you for your kind advice using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget In the case of ['work-external-identifiers'] is null, It is an error! 81 line： var extids = value['work-external-identifiers']['work-external-identifier']; ＿ 小野 亘 (Ono, Wataru) E-Mail: ono.wataru.p...@gmail.com （業務用: onow...@u-gakugei.ac.jp） @wonox http://orcid.org/-0002-6398-9317 東京学芸大学附属図書館（教育研究支援部学術情報課） Tel: 042-329-7217 Fax: 042-323-5994 2015-05-20 23:16 GMT+09:00 Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu: Hi again. Here are some examples implementing the ORCID API: using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget a Ruby client for Public and Member: https://github.com/jstirnaman/BibApp/blob/kumc/lib/orcid_client.rb Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: 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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Christina, it sounds like Thomson Reuters really has their stuff working well together. This is for a consortial project; so access to Web of Science varies. Thanks for bringing it up. I was looking for a one-size-fits-all solution, but we may end up using various strategies to populate our main source (whether it's ORCID or Zotero or something else). Alex On 05/23/2015 12:34 AM, Pikas, Christina K. wrote: FWIW, if you have WoS (and I've lost track of whether you mentioned that), you can batch load your faculty into ResearcherID and then have TR submit to ORCID. The faculty would be the account owners but you would be the delegate. You could add citations and otherwise manage the accounts. It probably depends on your local culture whether this would be an acceptable approach. Also, if you do have WoS and the faculty use EndNote, it's quite easy to move things into ResearcherID from there. Not an endorsement by any means! Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 4:47 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi Dan, Thanks for taking the time to share this. On closer inspection it looks like Academic Search is a research project rather than a product; one that has stalled, concluded or been abandoned. I was just looking at what sources ImpactStory indexes. For scholarly publications they seem to pull data from ORCID as well as Google Scholar. They're probably scraping the latter, but only if you designate a Google Scholar ID. They don't try to disentangle authors themselves, which is probably wise. (I'm basing this on their sample profile and some light googling.) I think I'll probably go with one of Zotero, Mendeley or ORCID for my project. I think ORCID might provide more benefits to my users outside of my particular project. That makes it appealing since I'll have to convince people to go and add the data themselves. I wish it supported arbitrary tags for works, which would allow users to tag a few representative items. Alex On 05/22/2015 10:32 PM, Dan Scott wrote: Hi Alex: On Thu, 21 May 2015 at 09:28 Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the responses; keep them coming, if you have other ideas. It's hard to demarcate domains, but my userbase consists largely of librarians and liberal arts faculty. I wasn't at all aware of Microsoft Academic Search. Their content looks thorough, though it doesn' include books: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#5 But based on the few searches I tried, it looks to be horrible at de-duping. I found it funny that the following article came up in Google Now about an hour after I posted my previous response on the 20th: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/05/the-decline-and-fall-of-microsoft -academic-search.html Dan, can you use ORCID IDs with Zotero? (Though that might create another hoop to jump through.) Zotero is open source, so you can theoretically do anything, but out of the box it doesn't do anything with ORCIDs. I'm just planning on integrating them (when possible) into the relational database after the RIS-to-SQL conversion as part of a set of cleanup / deduplication steps.
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
FWIW, if you have WoS (and I've lost track of whether you mentioned that), you can batch load your faculty into ResearcherID and then have TR submit to ORCID. The faculty would be the account owners but you would be the delegate. You could add citations and otherwise manage the accounts. It probably depends on your local culture whether this would be an acceptable approach. Also, if you do have WoS and the faculty use EndNote, it's quite easy to move things into ResearcherID from there. Not an endorsement by any means! Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 4:47 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi Dan, Thanks for taking the time to share this. On closer inspection it looks like Academic Search is a research project rather than a product; one that has stalled, concluded or been abandoned. I was just looking at what sources ImpactStory indexes. For scholarly publications they seem to pull data from ORCID as well as Google Scholar. They're probably scraping the latter, but only if you designate a Google Scholar ID. They don't try to disentangle authors themselves, which is probably wise. (I'm basing this on their sample profile and some light googling.) I think I'll probably go with one of Zotero, Mendeley or ORCID for my project. I think ORCID might provide more benefits to my users outside of my particular project. That makes it appealing since I'll have to convince people to go and add the data themselves. I wish it supported arbitrary tags for works, which would allow users to tag a few representative items. Alex On 05/22/2015 10:32 PM, Dan Scott wrote: Hi Alex: On Thu, 21 May 2015 at 09:28 Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the responses; keep them coming, if you have other ideas. It's hard to demarcate domains, but my userbase consists largely of librarians and liberal arts faculty. I wasn't at all aware of Microsoft Academic Search. Their content looks thorough, though it doesn' include books: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#5 But based on the few searches I tried, it looks to be horrible at de-duping. I found it funny that the following article came up in Google Now about an hour after I posted my previous response on the 20th: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/05/the-decline-and-fall-of-microsoft -academic-search.html Dan, can you use ORCID IDs with Zotero? (Though that might create another hoop to jump through.) Zotero is open source, so you can theoretically do anything, but out of the box it doesn't do anything with ORCIDs. I'm just planning on integrating them (when possible) into the relational database after the RIS-to-SQL conversion as part of a set of cleanup / deduplication steps.
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi Dan, Thanks for taking the time to share this. On closer inspection it looks like Academic Search is a research project rather than a product; one that has stalled, concluded or been abandoned. I was just looking at what sources ImpactStory indexes. For scholarly publications they seem to pull data from ORCID as well as Google Scholar. They're probably scraping the latter, but only if you designate a Google Scholar ID. They don't try to disentangle authors themselves, which is probably wise. (I'm basing this on their sample profile and some light googling.) I think I'll probably go with one of Zotero, Mendeley or ORCID for my project. I think ORCID might provide more benefits to my users outside of my particular project. That makes it appealing since I'll have to convince people to go and add the data themselves. I wish it supported arbitrary tags for works, which would allow users to tag a few representative items. Alex On 05/22/2015 10:32 PM, Dan Scott wrote: Hi Alex: On Thu, 21 May 2015 at 09:28 Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the responses; keep them coming, if you have other ideas. It's hard to demarcate domains, but my userbase consists largely of librarians and liberal arts faculty. I wasn't at all aware of Microsoft Academic Search. Their content looks thorough, though it doesn' include books: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#5 But based on the few searches I tried, it looks to be horrible at de-duping. I found it funny that the following article came up in Google Now about an hour after I posted my previous response on the 20th: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/05/the-decline-and-fall-of-microsoft-academic-search.html Dan, can you use ORCID IDs with Zotero? (Though that might create another hoop to jump through.) Zotero is open source, so you can theoretically do anything, but out of the box it doesn't do anything with ORCIDs. I'm just planning on integrating them (when possible) into the relational database after the RIS-to-SQL conversion as part of a set of cleanup / deduplication steps.
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi Alex: On Thu, 21 May 2015 at 09:28 Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the responses; keep them coming, if you have other ideas. It's hard to demarcate domains, but my userbase consists largely of librarians and liberal arts faculty. I wasn't at all aware of Microsoft Academic Search. Their content looks thorough, though it doesn' include books: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#5 But based on the few searches I tried, it looks to be horrible at de-duping. I found it funny that the following article came up in Google Now about an hour after I posted my previous response on the 20th: http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/05/the-decline-and-fall-of-microsoft-academic-search.html Dan, can you use ORCID IDs with Zotero? (Though that might create another hoop to jump through.) Zotero is open source, so you can theoretically do anything, but out of the box it doesn't do anything with ORCIDs. I'm just planning on integrating them (when possible) into the relational database after the RIS-to-SQL conversion as part of a set of cleanup / deduplication steps.
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Thanks for the responses; keep them coming, if you have other ideas. It's hard to demarcate domains, but my userbase consists largely of librarians and liberal arts faculty. I wasn't at all aware of Microsoft Academic Search. Their content looks thorough, though it doesn' include books: http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#5 But based on the few searches I tried, it looks to be horrible at de-duping. I like the idea of using Zotero or Mendeley but that would put the burden of managing the data on me. My hope was either to find some reasonable data ready-made (MS Academic Search shows promise) or to relegate that to my users by making the process useful in other ways (ORCID). Dan, can you use ORCID IDs with Zotero? (Though that might create another hoop to jump through.) Another tack in my case might be to aim for an indicative, rather an exhaustive, list of works. That would require more human brain than API, but would decrease the size of the data. Alex On 05/21/2015 12:23 AM, Dan Scott wrote: Good timing for this discussion! On Wed, 20 May 2015 at 17:03 Laura Robbins pope...@gmail.com wrote: 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. We're embarking on a self-compilation exercise and are going the Zotero route as well, relying on the power of student labour to take the bibliography section of each faculty member's CV and add them to Zotero group libraries. I'm cobbling together a super-simple Flask-on-PostgreSQL web app that will take the Zotero export as RIS, migrate it into a relational database, and enable us to clean up / enrich the data from there ( https://github.com/dbs/ris2web if you want to peek at it's very early, very much in progress state). One thing I've learned is that I reay wish is that Zotero offered linked data authority control, so that I could assert that this Smith, Jane is either different or the same as that Smith, Jane at the time of creating or editing the bibliography entry, but for now we're going to do the deduping URI addition after the fact. The URIs will be exposed as RDFa in the HTML of course. 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. There is no API for Google Scholar, alas. There is an API for Microsoft Academic Search at http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#4 which might be of interest. Haven't tried it myself. The Mendeley API looks quite interesting as well. Wasn't aware of that, even--thanks Bee!
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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
The National Library of Medicine has some great apis for use with PubMed and their other databases. That's only health science, but it's a good start. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/ Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Innovation Architect *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library* 1133 John Freeman Blvd Houston, TX 77030 http://library.tmc.edu/ www.jasonbengtson.com On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Pikas, Christina K. christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu wrote: 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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
I've been doing a lot of work lately with EuropePMC's API - http://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService It's been super useful for my purposes, though I've been searching based on article DOIs, not on authors. You might need to do a bit more parsing of the results to make sure you don't have false hits with author names. -Christine Mayo On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Jason Bengtson j.bengtson...@gmail.com wrote: The National Library of Medicine has some great apis for use with PubMed and their other databases. That's only health science, but it's a good start. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/ Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Innovation Architect *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library* 1133 John Freeman Blvd Houston, TX 77030 http://library.tmc.edu/ www.jasonbengtson.com On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Pikas, Christina K. christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu wrote: 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
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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Thanks for the responses so far. One thing that I forgot to mention is that the authors I'm going to be needing data for are faculty, librarians and technologists at liberal arts universities. So there's not a whole lot of medicine; which is unfortunate as they seem to have robust APIs in place. Alex On 05/20/2015 04:38 PM, Christine Mayo wrote: I've been doing a lot of work lately with EuropePMC's API - http://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService It's been super useful for my purposes, though I've been searching based on article DOIs, not on authors. You might need to do a bit more parsing of the results to make sure you don't have false hits with author names. -Christine Mayo On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Jason Bengtsonj.bengtson...@gmail.com wrote: The National Library of Medicine has some great apis for use with PubMed and their other databases. That's only health science, but it's a good start.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/ Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Innovation Architect *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library* 1133 John Freeman Blvd Houston, TX 77030 http://library.tmc.edu/ www.jasonbengtson.com On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Pikas, Christina K. christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu wrote: 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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: 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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi again. Here are some examples implementing the ORCID API: using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget a Ruby client for Public and Member: https://github.com/jstirnaman/BibApp/blob/kumc/lib/orcid_client.rb Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: 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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
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
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Good timing for this discussion! On Wed, 20 May 2015 at 17:03 Laura Robbins pope...@gmail.com wrote: 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. We're embarking on a self-compilation exercise and are going the Zotero route as well, relying on the power of student labour to take the bibliography section of each faculty member's CV and add them to Zotero group libraries. I'm cobbling together a super-simple Flask-on-PostgreSQL web app that will take the Zotero export as RIS, migrate it into a relational database, and enable us to clean up / enrich the data from there ( https://github.com/dbs/ris2web if you want to peek at it's very early, very much in progress state). One thing I've learned is that I reay wish is that Zotero offered linked data authority control, so that I could assert that this Smith, Jane is either different or the same as that Smith, Jane at the time of creating or editing the bibliography entry, but for now we're going to do the deduping URI addition after the fact. The URIs will be exposed as RDFa in the HTML of course. 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. There is no API for Google Scholar, alas. There is an API for Microsoft Academic Search at http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#4 which might be of interest. Haven't tried it myself. The Mendeley API looks quite interesting as well. Wasn't aware of that, even--thanks Bee!
