Elsevier

Elsevier Engineering Village Retrieval API

Engineering Village Retrieval API

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GET /ev/records Engineering Village Retrieval API #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://dev.elsevier.com/scopus.html
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Documentation
https://dev.elsevier.com/sciencedirect.html
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Documentation
https://dev.elsevier.com/scival.html
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Documentation
https://dev.elsevier.com/ev_apis.html

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elsevier/refs/heads/main/openapi/elsevier-engineering-village-retrieval-api-openapi.yml

Other Resources

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Specification
https://dev.elsevier.com/api_docs.html
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Console
https://dev.elsevier.com/scopus.html
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Console
https://dev.elsevier.com/sciencedirect.html
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WADL
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elsevier/refs/heads/main/wadl/elsevier-engineering-village.wadl
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Console
https://dev.elsevier.com/retrieval.html
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Console
https://dev.elsevier.com/metadata.html

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OpenAPI Specification

elsevier-engineering-village-retrieval-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Elsevier Engineering Village Retrieval API
  version: '2.0'
  description: 'Operations tagged Engineering_Village_Retrieval across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: elsevier-engineering-village-swagger.json, elsevier-retrieval-swagger.json. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://api.elsevier.com/content
- url: http://api.elsevier.com/content
tags:
- name: Engineering_Village_Retrieval
  description: Engineering Village Retrieval API
paths:
  /ev/records:
    get:
      tags:
      - Engineering_Village_Retrieval
      summary: Engineering Village Retrieval API
      description: This represents arecord retrieval from the Engineering Village databases.
      operationId: fetchRecordUsingGET
      parameters:
      - name: apiKey
        in: query
        description: Required if no X-ELS-APIKey HTTP header, this represents a unique application developer key providing access to resource.
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          default: 7f59af901d2d86f78a1fd60c1bf9426a
      - name: docId
        in: query
        description: DocId values corresponding to record to retreieve. The docId values are found in the DOC/DOC-ID values of the results returned by the Engineering Village Search API.
        required: true
        style: form
        explode: true
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      - name: insttoken
        in: query
        description: Specification for authorization, institution authtoken
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: access_token
        in: query
        description: Override for HTTP header Authorization, this contains the OAuth bearer access token, where the format of the field is "<token>" (where the token represents the end-user session key). The presence of a bearer token implies the request will be executed against user-based entitlements.
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Engineering Village Retrieval Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageContainer'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageContainer'
        '400':
          description: 'Invalid Request: This is an error that occurs when invalid information is submitted.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
        '401':
          description: 'Authentication Error: This is an error that occurs when a user cannot be authenticated due to missing/invalid credentials (authtoken or APIKey).'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
        '500':
          description: 'Generic Error: This is a general purpose error condition, typically due to back-end processing errors.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
        '403':
          description: 'Authorization/Entitlements Error: This is an error that occurs when a user cannot be authenticated or entitlements cannot be validated.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
        '429':
          description: 'Quota Exceeded: This is an error that occurs when a requester has exceeded the quota limits associated with their API Key.'
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
            application/xml:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceErrorWrap'
    servers:
    - url: https://api.elsevier.com/content
    - url: http://api.elsevier.com/content
components:
  schemas:
    PageContainerItems:
      properties:
        PAGE-RESULTS:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageResults'
        RESULTS-COUNT:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        RESULTS-PER-PAGE:
          type: integer
          format: int32
    DocID:
      properties:
        DB:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Database'
        DOC-ID:
          type: string
        HITINDEX:
          type: integer
          format: int32
        TAGDATE:
          type: string
    PageContainer:
      properties:
        PAGE:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageContainerItems'
    ContributorAffiliation:
      properties:
        AFID:
          type: array
          description: Affiliation ID list
          items:
            type: string
    PageEntry:
      properties:
        EI-DOCUMENT:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/CitationEiDoc'
    Afs:
      properties:
        AF:
          type: array
          description: Authors affiliation list
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Affiliation'
    Eds:
      properties:
        ED:
          type: array
          description: Editor list
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContributorInfo'
    PageResults:
      properties:
        PAGE-ENTRY:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PageEntry'
    CitationEiDoc:
      properties:
        AFS:
          description: Authors affiliation
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Afs'
        AUS:
          description: Authors
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Aus'
        DOC:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/DocID'
        DOCUMENTPROPERTIES:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
        EDS:
          description: Editors
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Eds'
        EFS:
          description: Editors affiliation
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Efs'
        FT:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/FT'
        VIEW:
          type: string
        docProperties:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/DocProperties'
    ContributorInfo:
      properties:
        AFS:
          description: Affiliations
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContributorAffiliation'
        CO:
          type: string
          description: Country
        EMAIL:
          type: string
        ID:
          type: string
        NAME:
          type: string
    Status:
      properties:
        statusCode:
          type: string
        statusText:
          type: string
    ServiceError:
      properties:
        status:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Status'
    DocProperties:
      properties:
        any:
          type: object
          additionalProperties:
            type: string
    FT:
      properties:
        FTLINK:
          type: string
    Database:
      properties:
        DBNAME:
          type: string
        ID:
          type: string
    ServiceErrorWrap:
      properties:
        service-error:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/ServiceError'
    Efs:
      properties:
        EF:
          type: array
          description: Editors affiliation list
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Affiliation'
    Affiliation:
      properties:
        ID:
          type: string
        NAME:
          type: string
    Aus:
      properties:
        AU:
          type: array
          description: Author list
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ContributorInfo'
x-refined-from:
- elsevier-engineering-village-swagger.json
- elsevier-retrieval-swagger.json
x-apievangelist-provenance:
  method: searched
  source: https://dev.elsevier.com/elsdoc/engineeringvillage
  note: 'Verbatim copy is openapi/_original/elsdoc/elsevier-engineering-village-swagger.json. This copy differs from the source in exactly two mechanical ways: Elsevier''s external path $refs (./listings/<Name>#/<op>) were inlined from the provider''s own listing documents (also saved verbatim under openapi/_original/elsdoc/listings/), and info.title was filled in where the provider left it empty. No operation, parameter, response or schema content was authored by API Evangelist.'
  retrieved: '2026-09-06'