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We use this from Bowker: http://images.bowker.com/cgi-bin/ulr_cover.pl?issn=03468755 it will return transparent one pixel image (as amazon does) when no picture is found. Not a clean API and not a lot of coverage Peter Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and Research Library tel. +31 317 48 25 17 http://library.wur.nl <http://library.wur.nl/> P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail ________________________________ Van: Code for Libraries namens Bob Duncan Verzonden: di 18-3-2008 22:17 Aan: [log in to unmask] Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Journal cover source? At 04:27 PM 03/18/2008, Jonathan wrote: >This is something some of us have been wanting for a while too. I don't >know of any API source (I wonder if Bowker's soon-to-be Books In Print >API, which I've been told has cover images, will have that? I'm still >trying to figure out, in communication with Bowker, what their cost >model is going to be for this service). > >Ulrich's Periodicals Directory does have many journal cover images, but >doesn't have any API to access them.... Ulrich's does use a predictable URL as the value of the img src attribute; it returns a cover image when one is available and nothing when one is not: <img alt="" src="http://ulrichsweb2.serialssolutions.com/cgi-bin/url_cover.pl?issn=#@ISSN#" /> Example: <img alt="" src="http://ulrichsweb2.serialssolutions.com/cgi-bin/url_cover.pl?issn=01612492" /> I'm not sure if the links work sans an Ulrich's/SS subscription, nor what the ethics are of using something like this (subscription or not), but.... Bob Duncan ~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~ Robert E. Duncan Systems Librarian Editor of IT Communications Lafayette College Easton, PA 18042 [log in to unmask] http://www.library.lafayette.edu/