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openalex-database

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By jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills (GitHub) · coding · 388 stars · scanned at commit 65d6ceb

Query OpenAlex REST API for 250M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, journals, concepts. Search by keyword, author, DOI, ORCID, or ID; filter by year, OA, citations, field; retrieve citations, references, author disambiguation. Free, no auth. For PubMed use pubmed-database; preprints use biorxiv-database.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'openalex-database' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'openalex-database' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named openalex-database already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jaechang-hits/SciAgent-Skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '65d6ceb875e20b751ffb3a6d8ee19516558789e1' -- 'skills/scientific-writing/openalex-database' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/scientific-writing/openalex-database' ~/.agents/skills/'openalex-database' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'openalex-database' ~/.claude/skills/'openalex-database' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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