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