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APIs

Articles / Publishers

Hindawi are a large CC-BY publisher based in Egypt, their XML corpus can be retreived from http://www.hindawi.com/corpus/

eLife apis

We have a bunch of well documented APIs, and support content negotation on our articels to return markdown. Our main rest api is built on top of fluidinfo. We have also just launced lens.elifesciences.org, and the front end and XML -> JSON converter can be found here and here. We are also experimenting with workflow systems in Amazon, you can find that proejct here.

Is it open access?

http://isitopenaccess.org/ is a tool that will tell you if a single doi is open access or not. It's still under development, but here is a component that might be interesting.

Altmetric

The Altmetric API provides access to mentions of scholarly works on social media sites, scholarly bookmarking services and in science news outlets. A free key has been generated for use on the day to alleviate rate limiting.

CrossRef APis

Crossref have many apis, ones of iterest for this hackathon might include the their search api, or any of the many items in their labe.

PLOS Search API

Search the fulltext content of all PLOS articles, including search in specific sections (e.g. financial disclosure or materials_and_methods). The web interface is here, available fields in the API are listed here, and an R package is available.

PubMed

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25500/

esearch.fcgi

Documentation

Retrieve identifiers of articles that match search criteria.

efetch.fcgi

Documentation

Fetch full records

Europe PMC

http://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService
http://europepmc.org/FtpSite - FTP archive of OA PMC articles

Visualisation tools

https://github.com/dasmoth/dalliance/ - a genome browser in javascript

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/biojs/registry/ - a registry of javascript visualisation tools for biological data

http://spectrumviewer.org/index.html - a javascript viewer for spectra

http://raphaeljs.com/ - one of the two best javascript visualisation libraries

http://d3js.org/ - the other best javascript visualisation library

https://gephi.org/ - display graphs, kinda like photshop for graphs, very cool.