Washington University in St. Louis

Digital Commons Data@Becker (Research Data Repository)

The Becker Medical Library and School of Medicine research data repository, publishing an API documentation page and a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint that serves the datacite, oai_datacite and oai_dc metadata prefixes with an earliest datestamp of 1971. Recorded as tenant, corrected from the June 2026 profile's institution verdict: digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu is a CNAME to www.data.mendeley.com, so the repository runs on Elsevier Digital Commons Data (Mendeley Data). The hostname is under wustl.edu and the DNS is what settles it. The datasets and the DOIs, registered under the DataCite repository wustl.becker-ir, are Washington University's.

Documentation GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation

https://digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu/api/docs/

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Documentation

https://digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu/oai?verb=Identify

Other Resources

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ResearchRepository

https://digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu/

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Conformance

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/washington-university-in-st-louis/refs/heads/main/conformance/washington-university-in-st-louis-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: washington-university-in-st-louis:digital-commons-data
name: Digital Commons Data@Becker (Research Data Repository)
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The Becker Medical Library and School of Medicine research data repository, publishing an
  API documentation page and a live OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint that serves the datacite, oai_datacite and oai_dc
  metadata prefixes with an earliest datestamp of 1971. Recorded as tenant, corrected from the June 2026
  profile''s institution verdict: digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu is a CNAME to www.data.mendeley.com, so
  the repository runs on Elsevier Digital Commons Data (Mendeley Data). The hostname is under wustl.edu
  and the DNS is what settles it. The datasets and the DOIs, registered under the DataCite repository
  wustl.becker-ir, are Washington University''s.'
humanURL: https://digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu/
baseURL: https://digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu/oai
tags:
- Research Data
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Mendeley Data
- Elsevier
- School of Medicine
- DataCite
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu/api/docs/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://digitalcommonsdata.wustl.edu/oai?verb=Identify
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/washington-university-in-st-louis-conformance.yml