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api.crossref.org

Scholarly metadata for over 150 million works: DOIs, titles, authors, funders, references and journals.

Capabilities (14)

GET /v1/data/crossref/agency1 credit

Returns which DOI registration agency owns a DOI - crossref, datacite, medra and so on - in a tiny response.

doi
GET /v1/data/crossref/funder1 credit

Returns one Funder Registry entry: canonical name, country, alternate names, its place in the funder hierarchy and the ids of its sub-organisations.

id
GET /v1/data/crossref/funders1 credit

Searches the Funder Registry and returns funder id, name, country and alternate names for each match.

query?rows?offset?cursor?mailto?
GET /v1/data/crossref/funder-works1 credit

Returns a page of work records whose funding metadata names this funder, with the total count of acknowledged outputs.

idquery?query.bibliographic?query.author?query.title?rows?offset?filter?select?sort?order?cursor?facet?sample?
GET /v1/data/crossref/journal1 credit

Returns one journal's record: title, publisher, all its ISSNs, total DOI counts and a year-by-year breakdown of deposits, licences and full-text links.

issn
GET /v1/data/crossref/journals1 credit

Searches Crossref's journal titles and returns each with its ISSNs, publisher, DOI counts and per-year breakdowns of coverage.

query?rows?offset?cursor?mailto?
GET /v1/data/crossref/journal-works1 credit

Returns a page of full work records published in one journal, identified by ISSN, with total-results for the journal's whole corpus.

issnquery?query.bibliographic?query.author?query.title?rows?offset?filter?select?sort?order?cursor?facet?sample?
GET /v1/data/crossref/member1 credit

Returns one Crossref member: its names, DOI prefixes, total current and backfile DOI counts, and year-by-year breakdowns of what it deposits (licences, references, ORCIDs, full-text links).

id
GET /v1/data/crossref/members1 credit

Searches Crossref member organisations - the publishers and societies that register DOIs - returning each member's id, names, prefixes and deposit statistics.

query?rows?offset?filter?cursor?mailto?
GET /v1/data/crossref/member-works1 credit

Returns a page of work records registered by one Crossref member, with total-results for that publisher's whole corpus.

idquery?query.bibliographic?query.author?query.title?rows?offset?filter?select?sort?order?cursor?facet?sample?
GET /v1/data/crossref/prefix1 credit

Returns which Crossref member currently owns a DOI prefix, with the member's name and member URL, in a 230-byte response.

prefix
GET /v1/data/crossref/types1 credit

Returns the 30 content types Crossref recognises - journal-article, book-chapter, dataset, preprint, peer-review and so on - as id plus label.

No parameters
GET /v1/data/crossref/work1 credit

Returns the full Crossref metadata record for one DOI: title, authors with ORCIDs and affiliations, container title, publisher, issue/volume/page, dates, funders, licences, reference list and citation count.

doiselect?
GET /v1/data/crossref/works1 credit

Searches the ~165 million Crossref registered works and returns a page of full metadata records plus total-results, with optional facets.

query?query.bibliographic?query.author?query.title?query.container-title?query.affiliation?rows?offset?filter?select?sort?order?cursor?facet?sample?mailto?

Licence

Crossref any-purpose statement: almost none of the metadata is subject to copyright, and you may use it for any purpose.

https://www.crossref.org/documentation/retrieve-metadata/rest-api/

Attribution

Display this wherever you show the data. It arrives on every response as provenance.attribution_text.

Source: Crossref

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