Release Notes: 2014-10-13
New feature:
· Support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) preflight request OPTIONS with the recognition of the headers ‘Access-Control-Request-Method’ and ‘Access-Control-Request-Headers’ (returns ‘Access-Control-Allow-Methods’ and ‘Access-Control-Request-Headers’, respectively). CORS preflight requests are a staple of packages like AJAX. More information regarding CORS preflight can be found here:
http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/#preflight-request
o Example request:
OPTIONS /content/article/pii/S123456789
Access-Control-Request-Method: GET
Access-Control-Request-Headers: Content-Type
o Example response:
Access-Control-Allow-Methods: HEAD,GET,OPTIONS
Access-Control-Request-Headers: Content-Type
A description of versioning can be found in the ‘Guidelines’ section of the documentation.
New feature:
· The ‘references’ element in the REF view contains the total number of references available in the attribute ‘total-references’.
New feature:
· The ‘references’ element in the REF view contains the total number of references available in the attribute ‘total-references’.
Bug fixes:
· Improper response returned for ENTITLED view
· The ‘cited-by-count’ was being calculated incorrectly.
ScienceDirect content has moved to a new search index. Most searches will work the same as they did before but there are a few field changes, outlined below.
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Field |
Change Description |
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content-type |
This field previously contained a numeric designation for the content types:
1 = Journals 2 = Book Series 3 = Handbook Series 4 = eBook 5 = Reference Works
The values are now abbreviations, previously used in the field ‘contenttypetxt’:
JL = Journals BS= Book Series HB= Handbook Series EB = eBook RW= Reference Works |
The following fields are being dropped:
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Field |
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full-text |
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contenttypetxt |
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preprint |
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relrank |
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specific-authkey |
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specific-otherkey |
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vectors |
ScienceDirect content has moved to a new search index. Most searches will work the same as they did before but there are a few field changes, outlined below.
|
Field |
Change Description |
|
content-type |
This field previously contained a numeric designation for the content types:
1 = Journals 2 = Book Series 3 = Handbook Series 4 = eBook 5 = Reference Works
The values are now abbreviations, previously used in the field ‘contenttypetxt’:
JL = Journals BS= Book Series HB= Handbook Series EB = eBook RW= Reference Works |
|
int-type |
This field previously contained a numeric designation for the attachment category types:
1 = figure 2 = application 3 = video
The values are now based upon the long name:
figure application video
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The following fields are being dropped:
|
Field |
|
relrank |