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Given A Doi How Can I Retrieve The Metadata About An Object

Given a doi how can I programmatically obtain the citation, such as author, title, publication, year. As opposed to retrieving or resolving to the document itself?

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updated by Casey Bergman Casey Bergman • written by Fgibson • Fgibson

It would be great to have this for all articles (not only those in PubMed) and with more extensive metadata than is available through CrossRef (e.g. keywords).

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written by Etienne • Etienne

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It appears CrossRef have recently opened up their meta-data services:

So it looks like the following request (see others here) should get you what you want:

curl -D - -L -H   "Accept:text/turtle" "http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1157784"
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updated by Ram Ram • written by Casey Bergman Casey Bergman

++ - this is great, and I hadn't spotted it :)

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written by Simon Cockell Simon Cockell

This is not yet a month old... so no wonder :) But it is pretty cool indeed. I'm linking to it already.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Egon Willighagen Egon Willighagen

CrossRef have an API for doing just this.

You need an API key, which you can get by requesting an account here.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Simon Cockell Simon Cockell

If the journal you care about is in PubMed, you can probably use the EUtils to retrieve this information. E.g. you can search PubMed by DOI and then also get the PMID via the EUtils.

Then it should be easy to also get all the further info you want.

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updated by Ram Ram • written by Michael Kuhn Michael Kuhn

My initial requirement was for articles that had a doi and were not in Pubmed. However, it would be useful to first determine the doi, then to determine if it had a Pubmed match as you describe.

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written by Fgibson • Fgibson

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Query PubMed for citation information using a DOI and Python

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written by Fred Fleche Fred Fleche

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