oampy

oampy is a Python package and command line tool that allows to access data from the Open Access Monitor (OAM), which is run by Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Installation

... via PyPI

pip install oampy

Prerequisite

Create an environment variable OAM_EMAIL with your email address. If the variable isn’t created before using this package, your username@hostname will be used to populate the user agent field in the request headers instead. Since version 2.1 you need a token to use the API. Therefore, you must create an environment variable OAM_TOKEN with your token. See also Usage Terms below.

Usage Examples

Command Line

# set environment variable OAM_EMAIL
export OAM_EMAIL="researcher@institution.org"
# set environment variable OAM_TOKEN
export OAM_TOKEN="YOUR_SECRET_OAM_API_TOKEN"
# fetch metadata of journal given by ISSN
oampy journal "0360-4012"
# fetch metadata of publication given by DOI
oampy publication "10.1007/s11263-011-0505-4"

Interpreter

# import package os
import os
# set environment variable OAM_EMAIL
os.environ["OAM_EMAIL"] = "researcher@institution.org"
# set environment variable OAM_TOKEN
os.environ["OAM_TOKEN"] = "YOUR_SECRET_OAM_API_TOKEN"
# import package oampy
import oampy
# fetch metadata of journal
journal = oampy.get_journal("0360-4012")
# fetch metadata of publication
publication = oampy.get_publication("10.1007/s11263-011-0505-4")

Usage Terms

Open Access Monitor

The database of the Open Access Monitor Germany is published under the Open Database License 1.0.

The data can be reused under the following conditions:

• Reuse of larger amounts of data and use of the API: please contact us.
• Reuse of the data by download via the OAM application: CC BY 4.0

https://open-access-monitor.de