About the APIs

Get programmatic access to:

• Citation data, metadata, and abstracts from scholarly journals, as indexed by Scopus, Elsevier's citation database.kl
• Full-text journals and books published by Elsevier on the ScienceDirect full-text platform.
• Research metrics available on SciVal, Elsevier's platform for research performance benchmarking.
• Engineering resources available on Engineering Village..
• Curated abstracts, indices and other metadata indexed by Embase, Elsevier's biomedical abstract and indexing database.
• Reactions, chemical structures & chemistry information from Reaxys, Elsevier's expert curated chemistry database.

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Anyone can request an API Key to use Elsevier APIs. Except for Scival and Embase APIs, access at no charge is available to researchers in academic and public-sector institutions, charities and charitable foundations. Free access is only available for non-commercial use and provided Elsevier's policies for using APIs and the data are honoured.

Full API access is only granted to researchers affiliated to organisations that have subscriptions to the corresponding Elsevier product.

APIs are also available for OAuth authentication; for electronic holdings exchange in KBART format and for checking a user's access rights for specific publications. These APIs are made available to customers and partners upon request, subject to approval.