[open-bibliography] Seeking open publisher authority file

Sat Dec 17 17:38:26 UTC 2011

I would’ve hoped that Suncat could help, however I just took look at their newsletter and whilst they’ve been making efforts to open up their data and also exploring making it available as linked data it seems that licensing issues are still a barrier.  But it might be worth taking a look.

http://www.suncat.ac.uk/news/suncat_newsletter9.pdf

Just as an aside at the moment at jisc we’re about to embark on an analysis of all of these sorts of ‘data sets’ that are funded by us and hosted by related jisc services to assess the openness of the data and the value of making it more so.

Rachel

From: open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org [mailto:open-bibliography-bounces at lists.okfn.org] On Behalf Of Patrick Hochstenbach
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You could try DOAJ

www.doaj.org<http://www.doaj.org>

It has an OAI-PMH port on

http://www.doaj.org/oai

Patrick

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On 17 Dec 2011, at 17:47, "Amanda Stevens" <astevens at k4all.ca<mailto: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.

Thanks!
Amanda

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