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OpenAIRE Graph API

Metadata aggregated from "a wide range of scholarly resources"; the full OpenAIRE Graph can also be downloaded in bulk. Offset paging stops at 10,000 results per query, so use cursor paging or the bulk dump for more. Publication delay: Not stated.

Open graph.openaire.eu
Signal Scoredraft model
88
Access
No key · none (60 requests/hour); free account token for up to 7,200/hour
20
Licence clarity
Provider terms · terms linked
13
Evidence
3 source links checked
15
Freshness
verified 2026-11-03
20
Documentation
docs · limits · coverage · attribution
20

// Terms and limits

Access
none (60 requests/hour); free account token for up to 7,200/hour
Free tier
Unauthenticated: up to 60 requests per hour. Registered users: up to 7,200 requests per hour with a personal access token, used for up to one hour at a time. Offset paging stops at 10,000 results per query.
Rate limits
60 requests/hour unauthenticated; 7,200/hour authenticated
Licence
Provider termsterms
Licence note
OpenAIRE says "the records returned by the service can be freely re-used by commercial and non-commercial partners under CC-BY license, hence as long as OpenAIRE is acknowledged as a data source." Its licence page adds that parts of the graph can be re-used as CC-0.
Attribution
Acknowledge OpenAIRE as the data source.

// Evidence · verified 2026-11-03

  1. 01graph.openaire.eu/docs/apis/graph-api/
  2. 02graph.openaire.eu/docs/apis/terms
  3. 03graph.openaire.eu/docs/license/

// Good for

research-grey-literaturepaperscitationshistorical-data

// The same record, for agents

Request · get_entry
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Reply · selected fields
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