OpenAlex is a fully open catalog of the global research system that describes scholarly entities and how those entities are connected to each other.
openalex
Local identifiers in OpenAlex should match this
regular expression:
^[WAICV]\d{2,}$
Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from OpenAlex should match
this regular expression:
^openalex:[WAICV]\d{2,}$
Providers are various services that resolve CURIEs to URLs. The example CURIE
openalex:
is used to demonstrate the provides available for
openalex
. Generation of OLS and BioPortal URLs requires additional programmatic
logic beyond string formatting.
Name | Metaprefix | URI |
---|---|---|
OpenAlex | openalex |
https://openalex.org/W2741809807 |
Bioregistry | bioregistry |
https://bioregistry.io/openalex:W2741809807 |