[open-bibliography] Seeking open publisher authority file

Sat Dec 17 17:14:43 UTC 2011

On Sat, Dec 17, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Amanda Stevens <astevens at k4all.ca> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of an authority file of scholarly journal publishers that
> is available as open data?  Ideally it would focus on journal publishers
> and be comprehensive, but incomplete files or files with a broader focus
> would also be useful.  I checked The Data Hub and did not find anything.
>  OCLC did some work on this<http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/publisherns/default.htm>a couple of years ago, but it doesn't look like anything came of it yet.
>  We're looking for such an authority file to use in the Knowledge for All
> open index of scholarly journal articles, but I think it could also be
> useful for other bibliographic data projects.
>

You could try http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/
This is a JISC project - I am not sure of the openness of all the journal
metadata but I would hope the publisher data was noncontroversial.

P.

>
> Thanks!
> Amanda
>
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