CrossRef API
Data for the research, publishing, and academic communities.
This API is best for retrieving data on published research, articles, and more.
The CrossRef API allows developers to access quality metadata from the research, publishing, and academic domain. This makes it easy to retrieve up-to-date article information or feature enriched search. Developers can use this data to quickly create citation links, build robust search functions, resolve DOIs for citation information, and more.
Key features
- Search
- DOI resolution
- CITE
- metadata
- and OpenURL service.
Potential use cases
- Search engine: Create a search engine that uses the CrossRef API to retrieve quality article metadata.
- Citation References: Create a web application that uses the CrossRef API to quickly generate accurate citation references.
- Digital Archive: Create a digital archive that uses the CrossRef API to appropriately store and organize research articles and associated metadata.
CrossRef has provided us with an incredibly robust and reliable API for collecting and displaying bibliographic metadata from quality research articles. We have been able to use their API to power article-level search and citiation features on our website and app, and their uptime and customer service have been incredible.
Related Technologies
- CrossMark
- Resolve DOIs
- Text & Data Mining
- Citeproc & CSL