OK, well to me that sounds hopeful - as displaying data in the browser
is an authorised purpose.
David.
2009/10/30 Graham Triggs <[log in to unmask]>:
> Les,
>
> The terms and conditions state the you must not:
>
> use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of Scopus services or collect information about users for any unauthorized purpose;
>
>
> G
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Leslie Carr
> Sent: 30 October 2009 14:35
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: citation counts in repositories
>
> Stuart Lewis has recently done a nice piece of work for displaying
> Scopus citation counts in DSpace (see http://blog.stuartlewis.com/2009/10/30/displaying-citation-counts-in-dspace/
> ). He relies on the presence of a DOI to lookup a DSpace item, but
> it's easy to extend his work to search on title/author/year where a
> DOI doesn't exist.
>
> The Scopus API that Stuart uses is all about "displaying Scopus data
> in the browser" and there is an implicit assumption that the citation
> data will not be sequestered and stored permanently in the repository
> against the original record. However, this doesn't seem to be
> explicitly forbidden. Can anyone who has experience with using Scopus
> data confirm this?
> ---
> Les Carr
>
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