* Announcement (cross-posted) * The SHERPA/RoMEO API has been upgraded following the major upgrade to the interactive RoMEO service. The updated API is version 2.4.2, and uses the same URL as the original V.2.4 - http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/api24.php. It has been acceptance-tested using a series of systematic test scripts. The main changes are as follows:
- Journal coverage has been expanded, through addition of the DOAJ and Entrez databases. - Journal title searches accommodate abbreviations - ISSN queries now also handle Electronic ISSNs (ESSNs) as well as Print ISSNs - Compliance with research funders' open access mandates can be selectively displayed for specific countries. - New validated DTD. A full list of changes is given in Appendix D of the updated documentation, downloadable from http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/api.html. If you are a user of V.2.3 or earlier 2.* versions, you can probably move to the latest version just by changing the URL in your program code. Although a couple of fields have been added to the XML schema, all the existing fields and definitions remain the same. WARNING TO USERS OF V.1.* PROTOTYPES We sent out notification in June 2009 that the earliest prototype versions of the API will be switched off at the end of 2009. Our log files indicate that V.1.1 still has some heavy users. If you are one of them, you need to upgrade your application to the new version of the API as soon as possible. Please get in touch if you need any advice regarding your upgrade. We hope that developers' experience with the new version is both productive and trouble-free. Regards Peter Millington SHERPA Technical Development Officer Greenfield Medical Library, University of Nottingham, Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham, NG7 2UH, England Phone: +44 (0)115 84 68481 This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Dspace-general mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/dspace-general
