Article Exchange API
A write web service for cloud-based document delivery. Provides developer level access to the Article Exchange document-sharing site. Article Exchange provides a single, secure location where lending libraries can place requested documents and the borrowing library can retrieve articles or book chapters the library user requested via interlibrary loan. This url can be used to retrieve a document from the web service
Status: Production
Developers can upload and share documents of image-type files, such as .pdf .png .jpg .tiff and other image file formats. Upon successful upload, the response contains a unique password-protected URL that can be shared with the library user so s/he can retrieve the uploaded materials. Documents can be retrieved from the web service by using the short url and the password
What you get
Ability to build applications that upload interlibrary loan materials and share a persistent protected URL for those materials with the requesting library user.
Who can use it
Qualifying Institutions
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Usage Limit
1000 files per day
Query protocols
XML, JSON
Record formats
XML
JSON
Authentication methods
- Developer Key
Base Service URL
https://ill.sd00.worldcat.org/articleexchange/
Applications
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