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Scopus Database API Interface to R
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Alternative authorization options #1

Closed erinstratton closed 7 years ago

erinstratton commented 7 years ago

I am accessing Scopus from a subscriber institution (not a university), but my machine's IP address resets every eight days. As a result, I get this error (in this case, I was using get_author_info on myself):

$`service-error`
$`service-error`$status
$`service-error`$status$statusCode
[1] "AUTHENTICATION_ERROR"

$`service-error`$status$statusText
[1] "Client IP Address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx does not resolve to an account"

If anyone else has this problem, here is what integration support told me:

IP address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is not configured for your access to Scopus and that is why you will only obtain a non-subscriber's response from API.

  • If it should be set up for access, then your Elsevier reporesentative needs to take care of that.
  • If it shouldn't be, but you still need institutional access to API, that can be solved with an institutional token which I can provide you with.

Since my client IP address changes every eight days, I need to gain authorization using the API Key and an institution token instead of by IP address. I am still a novice at R and programming in general, so I'm not likely to solve this problem by myself soon, but functionality for insttokens or authtokens would be deeply appreciated in the future.

valeriina commented 7 years ago

May be you did something wrong. It happened with me when I tried to use author_df or author_data (i don't remember which one), but I left by mistake some parameters from other function. Any way, I get a different error message: that I need a session id, except api_key. And just for the reccord: My experience is similar to yours - 3G internet connection at home with non-static IP address.

muschellij2 commented 7 years ago

I don't know what the errors are here necessarily, but others have been able to use this. If you still have problems, please open new issue.