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research-software-directory / RSD-as-a-service

This repo contains the new RSD-as-a-service implementation
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Alternative data sources #810

Open jmaassen opened 1 year ago

jmaassen commented 1 year ago

Since crossref seems to be slow occasionally, maybe it is good to also look at alternative metadata sources?

A nice one seems to be OpenAlex. They seem to mirror Crossref, but also many other sources like Unpaywall, pubmed, etc.

https://openalex.org/about https://api.openalex.org/works?filter=doi:10.5194/ems2021-338

Another could be Unpaywall:

https://unpaywall.org/ https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/10.5194/ems2021-338?email=rsd@esciencecenter.nl

Alternatively, several of these services (crossref, openalex, unpaywall) also offer data downloads. OpenAlex is even open source and has instructions on how to create your own mirror, including all data. This may go a bit far though ;-)

jmaassen commented 1 year ago

For OpenAlex there is also a paid subscription which provides higher limits, faster response and fresher data.