New release: Europe PMC Web Services 6.3

Today Europe PMC released Web Services version 6.3, updating its SOAP and RESTful APIs. Programmatic users can now find more fields available in the core response of these services

Multiple author affiliations

In the previous version, author affiliations were a single value. The new version 6.3 includes a list of multiple affiliations.

Example:

<authorList>
    <author>
        <fullName>Wei W</fullName>
        <firstName>Wei</firstName>
        <lastName>Wei</lastName>
        <initials>W</initials>
        <authorAffiliationsList>
            <authorAffiliation>
                Department of Orthopaedics, The 1st Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China.
            </authorAffiliation>
            <authorAffiliation>
                Department of Orthopaedics, Harbin 242 Hospital, Harbin, China.
            </authorAffiliation>
        </authorAffiliationsList>
    </author>
</authorList>

Articles now also contain data links tags, which can be used to retrieve data links using a tag parameter.

Example:

<dataLinksTagsList>
    <dataLinkstag>altmetrics</dataLinkstag>
    <dataLinkstag>supporting_data</dataLinkstag>
</dataLinksTagsList>

Check the Articles RESTful API page to find more information on Europe PMC data links.

Publication status

Retrieving the status of the article is now also possible. The new field ‘Publication status’ indicates, for example, if a given article is published or ahead of print.

The possible values for publication status are:

received
date manuscript received for review
accepted
accepted for publication
epublish
published electronically by publisher
ppublish
published in print by publisher
revised
article revised by publisher/author
pmc
article first appeared in PubMed Central
pmcr
article revision in PubMed Central
pubmed
article citation first appeared in PubMed
pubmedr
article citation revision in PubMed
aheadofprint
epublish, but will be followed by print
premedline
date into PreMedline status
medline
date made a MEDLINE record
other

Example:

<publicationStatus>ppublish</publicationStatus>

Let us know your thoughts and questions regarding this new release. Contact helpdesk@europepmc.org or post on the Europe PMC developer forum.

Written on 28 January 2020, by Dayane Araujo, Mohamed Selim, in Literature/Data Integration