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Thanks for the responses so far. One thing that I forgot to mention is that the authors I'm going to be needing data for are faculty, librarians and technologists at liberal arts universities. So there's not a whole lot of medicine; which is unfortunate as they seem to have robust APIs in place. Alex On 05/20/2015 04:38 PM, Christine Mayo wrote: > I've been doing a lot of work lately with EuropePMC's API - > http://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService > It's been super useful for my purposes, though I've been searching based on > article DOIs, not on authors. You might need to do a bit more parsing of > the results to make sure you don't have false hits with author names. > > -Christine Mayo > > On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Jason Bengtson<[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> 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 >>>