Does anyone know if linked in now allows access to public information over api. Previously due to API rate limits, you could only get (publicly available) infor

Does anyone know if linked in now allows access to public information over api. Previously due to API rate limits, you could only get (publicly available) information about a person if he went through oauth process. Whereas for other oauth api vendors, such as github for instance, you only need to have your(developer) api access setup and you can search for publically available information without bothering end users to authenticate