Hi Alex:

On Thu, 21 May 2015 at 09:28 Alex Armstrong <[log in to unmask]> 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.