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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 > > >