Actually ORCID has a public API, though there is a request to use throttling so as not to overwhelm the servers. I believe some guidance around this is being developed, but you can use the API now:
http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/132354-searching-with-the-public-api Lisa ----------------------------------------------- Lisa Schiff, Ph.D. Technical Lead Access & Publishing Group California Digital Library University of California Office of the President 415 20th Street, 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-2901 510-987-0881 (t) 510-893-5212 (f) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981 Follow eScholarship on Facebook and Twitter -----Original Message----- From: goal-boun...@eprints.org [mailto:goal-boun...@eprints.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Krichel Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 1:44 PM To: Global Open Access List (Successor of AmSci) Subject: [GOAL] Re: New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search Beall, Jeffrey writes > Could you please explain why you think ORCID is a step backwards? I am not saying it's a step backwards, but it is step backwards for open access. The data is ORCID will not be open access data. Access to ORCID data will essentially be limited to ORCID members. ORCID say there will be some dump of some data made available on an annual basis. That's not enough to build a service on the data that require bulk instantaneous access to the data. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal _______________________________________________ GOAL mailing list GOAL@eprints.org http://mailman.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/goal
