We are very proud to announce that CORE has now released CORE API 2.0. The new API offers new opportunities for developers to make use of the CORE open access aggregator in their applications.
The main new features are:
- Support for looking up articles by a global identifier (DOI, OAI, arXiv, etc.) instead of just CORE ID.
- Access to new resource types, repositories and journals, and organisation of API methods according to the resource type.
- Enables accessing the original metadata exactly as it was harvested from the repository of origin.
- Supports the retrieval of the changes of the metadata as it was harvested by CORE.
- Provides the possibility of retrieving citations extracted from the full-text by CORE.
- Support for batch request for searching, recommending, accessing full-texts, harvesting history, etc.
The goals of the new API also include improving scalability, cleaning up and unifying the API responses and making it easier for developers to start working with it.
The API is implemented and documented using Swagger, which has the advantage that anybody can start playing with the API directly from our online client. The documentation of the API v2.0 is available and the API is currently in beta. Those interested to register for a new API key can do so by completing the online form.