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