For the MEDLINE database, the efetch
function fromwith the E-utilities you can retrieve the abstract among other bibliographic attributes of:
- Use the
esearch
function to retrieve the PubMed ID (PMID) of the article that includes the DOI as aterm
(presumably only one article):
- Then, use
efetch
function to retrieve the abstract among other bibliographic attributes of the article (you need to pass thequery_key
andWebEnv
returned earlier byesearch
).
http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?db=pubmed&retmode=XML&rettype=abstract&query_key=1&WebEnv=something
If you have the articlePMID
, it is one step with efetch
: