Springer Open Access APIΒΆ

Springer Open Access API - Provides metadata and full-text content for more than 370,000 online documents from Springer open access xml, including BioMed Central and SpringerOpen journals.

Information on the Springer Open Access API can be found on the official site: https://dev.springer.com/restfuloperations. In order to use the Springer Open Access API a user must register an application and generate an application key which is used in the query message for access. Guidelines on using your API key with Arcas can be found under How to: Register Application and use api_key.

Springer class supports the following arguments as search fields:

  • author
  • title
  • journal
  • category
  • records
  • start

and the most recent check of compatibility between Arcas and the Springer Open AccessI API was done on the 27th of August 2018.