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It appears that academia.edu still does not have an Atom/RSS feed for member activity and listed publications, but I think such a feature would be very useful. If there was a concerted effort to demand such a service, academia.edu might consider implementing it. Ethan On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Howdy All, > > Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I > am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought > others might have encountered something similar. > > They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that > might work) for each faculty member on campus to collect and link to their > publications, which can then be embedded into their faculty profile webpage > (in WordPress). > > I realize the vendors (JSTOR, EBSCO, etc.) allow author RSS feeds, but > that really does not allow for disambiguation between folks with the same > name and variants in name citation. It appears Web of Science has author > authority records and a set of apis, but we currently do not subscribe to > WoS and am waiting for a trial to test. What we need is something similar > to this: http://arxiv.org/help/author_identifiers > > We can ask faculty members to upload their own citations and then just > auto link out to something like Serials Solutions' Journal Finder, but > that is likely not sustainable. > > So, any suggestions - particularly free or low cost solutions. Thanks! > > Cheers, Paul > +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > Paul R Butler > Assistant Systems Librarian > Simpson Library > University of Mary Washington > 1801 College Avenue > Fredericksburg, VA 22401 > 540.654.1756 > libraries.umw.edu > > Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230. >