PubMed API

Owned by Jessica Hartwigsen
Last updated: Feb 25, 2020 by Dolly Lopez (Unlicensed)
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Reviewed and Revised by ERM Committee 

Alma attempts to enrich the incoming URL using DOI. If this does not succeed, Alma attempts to enrich the incoming URL using the PMID. Similar to how CrossRef works. 

Note that if you do not include a PubMed API key, Alma continues to augment using the existing syntax; but there is no guarantee regarding how long PubMed will remain backward compatible.

Instructions


  1. Login or Register with PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/account/
  2. To create a key, go to the Settings which is located under your account name in the top right hand corner of the page.
  3. Go to the API Key Management and click on Create an API key.
  4. Copy the key and login into Alma
  5. Go to: Configuration Menu > General > External Systems > Integration Profiles), select Add Integration Profile

7. Go to Augmentation

8. Go to the Actions tab after clicking on the Edit link.

9. Scroll down to the PubMed Definitions and paste in the API Key from PubMed.

10. Save changes


*See this article in PubMed about changes to linking on their end.


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