Retrieve Metadata with an API

This section includes guides and information about how to retrieve DataCite metadata with an API:

DataCite Rest API for metadata retrieval including: retrieving a single DOI, retrieving a list of DOIs, pagination, queries and filtering, retrieving a random sample of DOIs and tracking metadata provenance.

Public Data File: DataCite Public Data Files contain metadata for all publicly available DataCite DOIs.

Monthly Data File: The DataCite Monthly Data File contains metadata for all publicly available DataCite DOIs registered up to the end of the last month.

DataCite Data File Use Policy: Terms of use for the data file.

DataCite OAI-PMH API: This DataCite service exposes metadata stored in the DataCite Metadata
Store (MDS).

DataCite Graph QL API: GraphQL is a query language for APIs and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data.

DataCite Event Data: DataCite Event Data collects and exposes links to DataCite DOIs.

DataCite Content Negotiation: Content negotiation allows a user to request a particular representation of a web resource.

Metadata Enrichments: DataCite is developing community-driven DOI metadata enrichment processes


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