Research & Reference

Scholarly, bibliographic, and reference metadata for topic alerts and research discovery tools.

Follow citations or page activity for one topic and keep the source record attached to every result.

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arXiv Preprint Metadata
intermediateSmall
Open preprint descriptive metadata for building topic alerts and research discovery tools that link back to arXiv.

First project: Watch recent machine-learning preprints

ResearchAtom XMLNo key
Crossref Works Metadata
intermediateSmall
Publisher-deposited DOI metadata for building literature monitors, journal alerts, funding analyses, and scholarly-reference tools.

First project: Monitor recent deposits about one topic

ResearchJSONNo key
GBIF Species Occurrences
intermediateMedium
Global museum, survey, observation, and citizen-science occurrence records for building biodiversity maps and species-monitoring tools.

First project: Map recent monarch butterfly occurrences

ResearchJSON +3No key
OpenAlex Scholarly Works
intermediateSmall
Open scholarly metadata linking works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and citations for building research-monitoring products.

First project: Track recent work on one research topic

ResearchJSON +2Key
PubChem Compounds
beginnerLarge
Chemical identifiers, properties, and bioassay links for building compound lookup and structure-reference tools.

First project: Look up aspirin identifiers

ResearchJSON +2No key
PubMed Citation Records
intermediateSmall
Curated biomedical citation records for building topic alerts, evidence discovery tools, publication monitors, and research trend summaries.

First project: Track newly indexed biomedical articles

ResearchJSON +1No key
USPTO Open Data Portal
intermediateLarge
U.S. patent bibliographic records for building assignee, classification, and filing-volume research tools.

First project: List recent utility patent applications

ResearchJSON +3Key
Wikidata Query Service
intermediateTiny
CC0 structured knowledge-graph facts for building entity lookup, taxonomy, and reference-enrichment tools.

First project: List a handful of U.S. cities from Wikidata

ResearchJSON +1No key
Wikimedia Pageviews
beginnerSmall
Per-article and project pageview counts for building attention monitors and topic-trend tools.

First project: Chart one Wikipedia article's daily pageviews

ResearchJSONNo key