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Python-based API-Wrapper to access Scopus
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How to use the Scopus Author Search API without InstToken? #282

Closed pedroelias520 closed 1 year ago

pedroelias520 commented 1 year ago

It's been a few days since I've been trying to use the Scopus Authors API, but I always run into the problem of:

"The requestor is not authorized to access the requested view or fields of the resource"

I tried to understand why this was happening and I saw that it has something to do with the internet I am using, I already sent an email asking for an institutional token and I didn't get a response, I wanted to know if it is really necessary to access the institution's internet network for this.

Michael-E-Rose commented 1 year ago

Yes.

Scopus is an expensive database. You will not get an InstToken if your institution doesn't pay for the service.

You have to use an API key and be in the network of an institution that subscribes to Scopus API. See https://pybliometrics.readthedocs.io/en/stable/access.html.

pedroelias520 commented 1 year ago

Okay, so let's pay for the service. How do we acquire it?

Michael-E-Rose commented 1 year ago

I think you want to contact Sales: https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/scopus/contact-sales