Generic Elsevier Search

Runs GET on generic Elsevier Search

generic_elsevier_api(query = NULL, type = c("search", "article",
  "entitlement", "recommendation", "object", "fragment", "abstract",
  "affiliation", "embase", "author", "serial", "nonserial", "subject",
  "holdings", "citation-count", "citations", "metadata", "ev",
  "ev_records", "analytics"), search_type = c("affiliation", "author",
  "scopus", "scidir", "scidir-object", "sciencedirect", "plumx"),
  api_key = NULL, headers = NULL, content_type = c("content",
  "feedback"), root_http = "https://api.elsevier.com", http_end = NULL,
  verbose = TRUE, api_key_error = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

query	Query to run, not overall query, but `queryParam` query
type	Type of search. See https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
search_type	Type of search if type = "search". See https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
api_key	Elsevier API key
headers	Headers passed to add_headers, passed to GET
content_type	Is the data content or feedback?
root_http	address to use for query
http_end	string to add to end of http specification (done using paste0)
verbose	Print messages from specification
api_key_error	Should there be an error if no API key?
...	Options passed to queryParam for GET

Value

List of elements, content and the GET request

Examples

if (FALSE) {
query_string = "affil(hopkins)"
# Use affiliation query
s = generic_elsevier_api(query = query_string,
                         type = "search", search_type = "affiliation",
                         api_key = api_key,
                      verbose = FALSE)

# Use author query
s = generic_elsevier_api(query = query_string,
type = "search", search_type = "author",
api_key = api_key,
                      verbose = FALSE)

# Query abstract by pii
s = generic_elsevier_api(query = "",
                      type = "abstract", http_end = "pii/S1053811915002700",
                      api_key = api_key,
                      verbose = FALSE)
}