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Unpaywall is an Open Access database, harvesting content from more than 25,000 Gold OA journals, hybrid journals, institutional repositories, and disciplinary repositories.
The integration with Unpaywall supports researchers by expanding the range of available import data sources with an OA database indexing over 25 million publications, and providing researchers access to online version of a record.
This import source is available as of 5.19.0 of Pure
Overview
| Content type | License / subscription | Available for Automated search | Integrated with Available Updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Research output | No | No | No |
Set up online source
Go to Administrator > Research outputs > Import sources > Unpaywall
| Setting | Description | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Enabled | Toggles it available for users or not. | |
| The email is used as authorization for performing searches. The email doesn't have to be registered with the service | ||
| Accept repository URLs. |
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Unpaywall to Pure type mapping
N/A
Unpaywall to Pure data mapping
Data Format: https://unpaywall.org/data-format
Table with mapping of fields to Pure.
| Unpaywall field | Pure field |
| genre | Maps to above type map and defines the content type in Pure |
| title | Title |
| year | Publication year |
| doi | Source id (External id) |
| doi | DOI |
| doi_url | DOI / Link |
| best_oa_location > url | Link |
| publisher | Publisher |
| z_authors > orcid | Author orcid id |
| z_authors > given + family | Author first name and last name |
| z_authors > affiliation | Author organizations |
| best_oa_location > version | Publication Status |
| best_oa_location > oa_locations (version = publishedVersion) > url |
Full text file link |
| best_oa_location > oa_locations (version = publishedVersion) > url | Full text file title |
| best_oa_location > oa_locations (version = publishedVersion) > license |
Full text file license |
| oa_status | DOI status |
| published_date | Publication date |
| journal_name | Journal title |
| journal_issns | Journal issns |
More information
Site: https://unpaywall.org/
API: https://unpaywall.org/products/api
FAQ: https://unpaywall.org/faq
Terms of Service: https://unpaywall.org/legal/terms-of-service
Example: https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/10.1038/nature12373?email=YOUR_EMAIL
Published at July 15, 2025