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Unpaywall Search Example

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Unpaywall Search Example is an example object payload from Unpaywall, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/search/?query=machine+learning+drug+discovery&email=you@example.com&is_oa=true"
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "body": {
      "results": [
        {
          "response": {
            "doi": "10.1039/c9sc04426d",
            "doi_url": "https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sc04426d",
            "title": "Machine learning for drug discovery",
            "genre": "journal-article",
            "is_oa": true,
            "oa_status": "gold",
            "published_date": "2019-11-13",
            "year": 2019,
            "journal_name": "Chemical Science",
            "publisher": "Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)",
            "best_oa_location": {
              "host_type": "publisher",
              "is_best": true,
              "license": "cc-by",
              "url_for_pdf": "https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2020/sc/c9sc04426d",
              "url_for_landing_page": "https://doi.org/10.1039/c9sc04426d",
              "version": "publishedVersion"
            },
            "data_standard": 2,
            "has_repository_copy": true,
            "is_paratext": false,
            "journal_is_in_doaj": false,
            "journal_is_oa": false
          },
          "score": 67.2,
          "snippet": "<b>Machine</b> <b>learning</b> for <b>drug</b> <b>discovery</b>"
        }
      ],
      "elapsed_seconds": 0.038
    }
  }
}

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