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[EP-tech] Altmetric plugin - API key soon to be made mandatory

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Hi,
I’ve been contacted by the Altmetric team, as there will soon (10th November) be a change to their API, to require an API key.

 

If you use the Altmetric plugin, and haven’t already configured an API key, you will need to either:

  • register for an API key and add it to your configuration
  • change to using the embedded version of the badges.

 

I’ve put some details here: https://wiki.eprints.org/w/Altmetric_badges

 

Altmetric ran a test of this change this morning, and I checked a few repositories. If there isn’t an API key configured, an error message is displayed, although this doesn’t indicate that it’s an API key issue.

 

A new version of the plugin will be released (which also has other changes in it to improve accessibility and internationalisation).

This will use the existing API-based display if a key has been configured, and fall back to the embedded version if not.

 

This will be advertised here when released.

 

Cheers,

John

 

John Salter

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8611-8266

 

White Rose Libraries Technical Officer
Library and Research Management team, IT
University of Leeds