consider APIs vs RSS

[bbest]

Hey @stevejbrown, just clearing some tabs from last meeting with a few ideas like accessing APIs to journal titles and abstracts from many journals. Here's a nice summary of available APIs for WorldCat, arXiv, PLoS, BioMed, JStor, ScienceDirect, Springer, Web of Science...:

Home - APIs for Scholarly Resources - LibGuides at MIT Libraries

A few others, like Microsoft Academic Search API, mentioned here:

APIs for scholarly resources - Information Studies - Library Guides at UC Berkeley

[stevejbrown]

This is a great idea! I'll look into these.

[bbest]

Here are R packages listed at ropensci/webservices:

• Reference/bibliography/citation management : RefManageR imports and manage BibTeX and BibLaTeX references with RefManager. RMendeley: Implementation of the Mendeley API in R. Archived on CRAN. It's been archived on CRAN temporarily until it is updated for the new Mendeley API. rmetadata (not on CRAN) can get scholarly metadata from around the web. rorcid (not on CRAN): is a programmatic interface the Orcid.org API. rplos is a programmatic interface to the Web Service methods provided by the Public Library of Science journals for search. rpubmed (not on CRAN) provides tools for extracting and processing Pubmed and Pubmed Central records. scholar provides functions to extract citation data from Google Scholar. Convenience functions are also provided for comparing multiple scholars and predicting future h-index values. pubmed.mineR is a package for text mining of PubMed Abstracts that supports fetching text and XML from PubMed. OAIHarvester harvests metadata using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). JSTORr (Not on CRAN) provides simple text mining of journal articles from JSTOR's Data for Research service. aRxiv (GitHub) is a client for the arXiv API, a repository of electronic preprints for computer science, mathematics, physics, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, and statistics. alm is a wrapper to the almetrics API platform developed by PLoS.