Crossref - A ruby way to work with DOI metadata from crossref.org
You can get info on many academic articles via DOI. This gem gets XML from crossref openurl and gives you a nice ruby object to work with.
More information at: crossref.org crossref.org/openurl
Very early in development, made for a specific application. Hopefully will progress to a more useful library.
>> require 'crossref' => true
Create an instance with your crossref pid.
>> CR = Crossref::Metadata.new(:pid => "you@example.com") => #<Crossref::Metadata:0x1121848 @base_url="http://crossref.org/openurl/?noredirect=true&format=unixref&pid=you@example.com", @pid="you@example.com", @doi=nil>
Get a paper with a DOI
>> paper = CR.doi('10.1021/ie50324a027')
=> #<Crossref::Metadata:0x111cd48 @xml=<?xml version="1.0"?>...
, @url="http://crossref.org/openurl/?noredirect=true&format=unixref&pid=you@example.com&id=doi:10.1021/ie50324a027", @base_url="http://crossref.org/openurl/?noredirect=true&format=unixref&pid=you@example.com", @pid="you@example.com", @doi="10.1021/ie50324a027">
Get your data:
>> paper.title
=> "Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop of Liquids in Tubes"
>> paper.journal
=> {:volume=>"28", :issue=>"12", :first_page=>"1429", :last_page=>"1435", :title=>"Ind. Eng. Chem.", :issn=>"0019-7866"}
>> paper.published
=> {:month=><month>12</month><month>12</month>, :year=><year>1936</year><year>1936</year>}
>> paper.authors
=> [{:given_name=>"E. N.", :surname=>"Sieder"}, {:given_name=>"G. E.", :surname=>"Tate"}]
nokogiri
rake package sudo gem install pkg/crossref-0.0.1.gem
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