Dear Adam, Many thanks for this most valuable information. Indeed, in the meantime I got a confirmation from company Thomson Reuters that they have switched from version 1.0 to 2.0 of their web services, including the SOAP access as of 31st August 2012.
Unfortunately I need very urgently ISI WOS in BibDesk back. Any idea what could be done? Notably I have for sure following questions for the time being: 1) Where are search details as contained in a .bdsksearch file actually stored in BibDesk once such a search has been installed? I have consulted the help pages, and examples of .bdsksearch files are also not that difficult to construct from scratch. But this all did not answer me this question. Have I overlooked something or is it really missing. 2) What URL is "Searches -> Web of Science SCI" using? In the current case I opened with Thomson Reuters, they are asking me this question, but I do not know what to answer. 3) Can I edit or at least see Web of Science SCI search specs at the XML level? Is there a way to edit a search once its .bdsksearch file has been installed? I looked for plist files, but neither inside the application BibDesk nor in ~/Library/Application Support could I find the wanted information. 4) Can I look at a SOAP protocol during an attempt to access the ISI WOS service? In the current case I opened with Thomson Reuters, they are asking me for the exact error message that was returned, but I can not answer that question unless I could look at the protocol of a query using SOAP access. Maybe you Adam or someone else can help me a bit by at least answering some or all of these questions. Thanks! Cheers, Andreas On 07/09/2012, at 18:33 , Maxwell, Adam R wrote: On Sep 7, 2012, at 08:40, Fischlin Andreas wrote: In the last few days I have never again been able to successfully search ISI WOS. I have checked everything on our side and included personnel from our main library at ETH Zurich. Unfortunately all to no avail. Question 1: Has anyone encountered similar difficulties? Yes, it appears to be broken. You can download the WSDL, so the server is still alive. http://wok-ws.isiknowledge.com/esti/soap/SearchRetrieve?wsdl There's apparently a newer version of their WS interface, but I don't have time to investigate it right now: http://search.isiknowledge.com/esti/cxf-wsclient-demo/docs/soap/index.html It uses separate authentication and searching, from what I can tell at a quick glance, even for IP-based auth. Maybe they've changed auth for the old service, too. Question 2: How about importing from Scopus? http://www.library.ethz.ch/en/Resources/Databases/Scopus I used Scopus several years ago, and adapted BibDesk's RIS parser to deal with their bastardized RIS. That should still work, but I no longer have access to Scopus. If you're asking about a search group for it in BibDesk, that would require a suitable API from Scopus, and someone with access to write the code and test it. A web group might be more appropriate, but the same access caveat applies. Adam ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
