Springer Nature

Springer Nature is a globally recognized leader in scientific, technical, and medical publishing, providing access to a wide array of scholarly and professional content. Their developer APIs empower developers to integrate high-quality research metadata, open access full-text content, and text mining capabilities into applications, platforms, and research tools. The APIs cover metadata search, full-text retrieval, open access content, and rich scholarly publication data.

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APIs

Springer Nature Meta API

The Meta API (versioned metadata) provides access to metadata for over 14 million online documents including articles, books, and book chapters. Supports search by keyword, auth...

Springer Nature Open Access API

Provides free access to open access research articles and book chapters published by Springer Nature. Returns full-text content (where licensed), metadata, abstracts, and PDF li...

Springer Nature Metadata API

The legacy Metadata API provides metadata retrieval for Springer publications. Returns article and book metadata via DOI, journal name, ISSN, or keyword. Predecessor to the Meta...

Springer Nature Full Text API

Premium full-text API providing content retrieval for licensed Springer Nature publications including text and data mining (TDM) capabilities. Requires institutional or premium ...

Collections

Springer Nature Meta API

OPEN

Springer Nature Open Access API

OPEN

Pricing Plans

Springer Nature Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits

Springer Nature Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps

Springer Nature Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies

Springer Nature Context

21 classes · 15 properties

JSON-LD

API Governance Rules

Springer Nature API Rules

7 rules · 3 errors 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Structure

Springer Nature Publication Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Example Payloads

Springer Nature Search Publications Example

4 fields

EXAMPLE

Resources

Terms and Conditions

Terms and Conditions

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GitHubOrganization

Sources

opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: Springer Nature Open Access API
  version: '1'
request:
  auth:
    type: apikey
    key: X-ApiKey
    value: '{{X-ApiKey}}'
    placement: header
items:
- info:
    name: Open Access
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Search Open Access Content
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.springernature.com/openaccess/json
      params:
      - name: q
        value: ''
        type: query
        description: 'Search query supporting field qualifiers: doi:, title:, author:, journal:, issn:, isbn:, subject:, keyword:,
          onlinedatefrom:, onlinedateto:'
      - name: s
        value: ''
        type: query
        description: Start record for pagination (1-based)
      - name: p
        value: ''
        type: query
        description: Number of results per page
      - name: api_key
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Searches open access publications and returns metadata with links to full-text content. Results include articles
      and chapters that are freely accessible without subscription.
  - info:
      name: Search Open Access Content (JATS Format)
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.springernature.com/openaccess/jats
      params:
      - name: q
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: s
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: p
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Returns open access publication metadata in JATS XML format
bundled: true