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" <[log in to unmask]> 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:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Heller, Margaret
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> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K.
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> The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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