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 Bengtson<[log in to unmask]>
> 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. <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> The Scopus API:http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>>> Alex Armstrong
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM
>>> To:[log in to unmask]
>>> 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
>>>
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