Code summary

This code is currently under development. The goal is to bring together APIs and/or scrapers for working with publication websites (and related material).

When I have some functional examples of this in action I'll add them!

Roadmap:

• expose Pubmed (started)
• CrossRef
• ElSevier API
• other publishers?
• Mendeley Client

Code source

This is a fork from Heather Piwowar's pypub repo. Although I think Heather and I have the same goals in mind, I'm starting fresh and slowly incorporating her code, as well as code from others, into the repo.

Package Requirements

Biopython: https://github.com/biopython/biopython

For interacting with Pubmed

I might eventually get rid of this because installing Biopython can be a bit of a pain

NOTE: I've also had to manually install several DTDs which will supposedly be fixed soon.

Requests: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests

For doing http requests

pip install requests

NOTE: I'm not actually using Requests yet

Coding Standards

Documentation Standards, I'm trying to follow this: https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt

Encapsulation! Encapsulation! Encapsulation! Ideally each module should have a well defined purpose that doesn't work with data that is not its own.

TODO: Define variable naming conventions