fulltext-package: Fulltext search and retrieval of scholarly texts.
Description
fulltext is a single interface to many sources of scholarly texts. In practice,
this means only ones that are legally useable. We will support sources that require
authentication on a case by case basis - that is, if more than just a few people
will use it, and it's not too burdensome to include, then we can include that source.
What's included
We currently include support for search and full text retrieval for a variety
of publishers. See ft_search for what we include for search, and
ft_get for what we include for full text retrieval.Use cases
The following are tasks/use cases supported:
DOI delays
Beware that DOIs are not searchable via Crossref/Entrez immediately. The delay may
be as much as a few days, though should be less than a day. This delay should become
shorter as services improve. The point of this is that you man not find a match
for a relatively new DOI (e.g., for an article published the same day). We've
tried to account for this for some publishers. For example, for Crossref we search
Crossref for a match for a DOI, and if none is found we attempt to retrieve the
full text from the publisher directly.