[GOAL] Re: New Year's challenge for repository developers and managers: awesome cross-search

[Thomas Krichel]

  Lisa Schiff writes

> Actually ORCID has a public API, though there is a request to use throttling so as not to overwhelm the servers.  I believe some guidance around this is being developed, but you can use the API now:
> 
> http://support.orcid.org/knowledgebase/articles/132354-searching-with-the-public-api

  An API is not the same thing as a stock of data that is freely
  available. For example CrossRef also has an API, you can conduct
  searches but you will never know if/when you have the complete data.

  Neither ORCID nor CrossRef are open access. 

  Cheers,

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