Web Services Lite

When the Bibliosight project began back in June, Thomson Reuters’ new Web of Science Web Services had not been released and we were very grateful to the company for giving us full access to their “general API”. After discussion with Thomson, we understood this to be an unrestricted version of WS Lite. However, we have now subscribed to the service which, in actual fact, appears to be a different enough product to need another reasonable chunk of time to learn and implement, which is a little frustrating this close to the end of the project!

There is some consolation that a number of components appear to be shared; query format for example, though Mike hasn’t had enough time with the documentation to fully digest all the similarities.

The resulting XML is also different but more useful (we think), though right now this is based on the documentation which is much more thorough and which should make our life easier and also others wanting to implement the service.

To register for WS Lite users will need to review the Terms & Conditions at the following URL which will take you to a registration form: http://science.thomsonreuters.com/info/terms-ws/