rdatacite

rdatacite provides programmatic accesses to DataCite (https://datacite.org/) metadata

• REST API. Docs: https://support.datacite.org/docs/api and https://support.datacite.org/reference

rdatacite docs: https://docs.ropensci.org/rdatacite

Package API:

• dc_providers
• dc_reports
• dc_check
• dc_events
• dc_dois
• dc_clients
• dc_client_prefixes
• dc_provider_prefixes
• dc_status
• dc_prefixes
• dc_activities

Installation

Stable CRAN version

install.packages("rdatacite")

Development version from github

devtools::install_github("ropensci/rdatacite")

library('rdatacite')

Result objects

Outputs from nearly all rdatacite functions will be of class dc, an S3 class that's simply a named list of results. You can easily remove the class via unclass(). The print.dc method prints the data.frame for the data, included, and reports slots if they exist, but hides the meta named list. You can get to the metadata by indexing to it like $meta.

Searching

You may want to start with dc_dois().

dc_dois(query = "climate change")
#> datacite: dois
#> found: 427319, pages: 400, page: 1
#> slots: data, included, meta, links
#> $data
#> # A tibble: 25 x 4
#>    id    type  attributes$doi $identifiers $creators $titles $publisher
#>    <chr> <chr> <chr>          <list>       <list>    <list>  <chr>     
#>  1 10.1… dois  10.1101/2020.… <df[,2] [2 … <df[,6] … <df[,1… bioRxiv   
#>  2 10.1… dois  10.1038/s4156… <df[,2] [1 … <df[,6] … <df[,1… Springer …
#>  3 10.3… dois  10.3886/e1111… <df[,2] [1 … <df[,6] … <df[,2… ICPSR - I…
#>  4 10.1… dois  10.1039/d0dt0… <df[,2] [2 … <df[,6] … <df[,1… Royal Soc…
#>  5 10.4… dois  10.4232/1.134… <df[,2] [3 … <df[,4] … <df[,2… GESIS Dat…
#>  6 10.1… dois  10.1016/j.cat… <df[,2] [2 … <df[,5] … <df[,1… Elsevier …
#>  7 10.1… dois  10.15496/publ… <df[,2] [4 … <df[,6] … <df[,1… Universit…
#>  8 10.1… dois  10.15496/publ… <df[,2] [3 … <df[,6] … <df[,1… Elsevier …
#>  9 10.5… dois  10.5281/zenod… <df[,2] [2 … <df[,6] … <df[,1… Zenodo    
#> 10 10.5… dois  10.5281/zenod… <df[,2] [2 … <df[,6] … <df[,1… Zenodo    
#> # … with 15 more rows, and 44 more variables: $container$type <chr>,
#> #   $$title <chr>, $$identifier <chr>, $$identifierType <chr>, $$volume <chr>,
#> #   $$lastPage <chr>, $$firstPage <chr>, $publicationYear <int>,
#> #   $subjects <list>, $contributors <list>, $dates <list>, $language <chr>,
#> #   $types$ris <chr>, $$bibtex <chr>, $$citeproc <chr>, $$schemaOrg <chr>,
#> #   $$resourceType <chr>, $$resourceTypeGeneral <chr>,
#> #   $relatedIdentifiers <list>, $sizes <list>, $formats <list>, $version <chr>,
#> #   $rightsList <list>, $descriptions <list>, $geoLocations <list>,
#> #   $fundingReferences <list>, $url <chr>, $contentUrl <lgl>,
#> #   $metadataVersion <int>, $schemaVersion <chr>, $source <chr>,
#> #   $isActive <lgl>, $state <chr>, $reason <lgl>, $viewCount <int>,
#> #   $downloadCount <int>, $referenceCount <int>, $citationCount <int>,
#> #   $created <chr>, $registered <chr>, $published <chr>, $updated <chr>,
#> #   relationships$client$data$id <chr>, $$$type <chr>
#> 
#> $included
#> # A tibble: 10 x 4
#>    id    type  attributes$name $symbol $year $contactEmail $alternateName
#>    <chr> <chr> <chr>           <chr>   <int> <chr>         <chr>         
#>  1 cros… clie… Crossref Citat… CROSSR…  2019 info@datacit… <NA>          
#>  2 gesi… clie… ICPSR           GESIS.…  2013 dara@gesis.o… ICPSR data ar…
#>  3 gesi… clie… GESIS Leibniz … GESIS.…  2011 dara@gesis.o… <NA>          
#>  4 tib.… clie… Universitätsbi… TIB.UB…  2014 peter.rempis… <NA>          
#>  5 cern… clie… Zenodo          CERN.Z…  2013 info@zenodo.… Research. Sha…
#>  6 ethz… clie… ARBOR, Berner … ETHZ.B…  2019 doi@library.… <NA>          
#>  7 cist… clie… National Resea… CISTI.…  2011 sophie.roy2@… <NA>          
#>  8 bl.l… clie… University of … BL.LPO…  2015 jkerwin@live… <NA>          
#>  9 tib.… clie… Thüringer Univ… TIB.DBT  2017 thomas.schef… <NA>          
#> 10 sage… clie… Data Planet     SAGE.D…  2018 Kari.Hemdal@… <NA>          
#> # … with 15 more variables: $description <chr>, $language <list>,
#> #   $clientType <chr>, $domains <chr>, $re3data <chr>, $opendoar <lgl>,
#> #   $issn <list>, $url <chr>, $created <chr>, $updated <chr>, $isActive <lgl>,
#> #   $hasPassword <lgl>, relationships$provider$data$id <chr>, $$$type <chr>,
#> #   $prefixes$data <list>

The query parameter supports Elasticearch query string queries. Some examples:

# search within a field
dc_dois(query = "publicationYear:2016")
# fuzzy search (via *) on a nested field
dc_dois(query = "creators.familyName:mil*")

Meta

• Please report any issues or bugs.
• License: MIT
• Get citation information for rdatacite in R doing citation(package = 'rdatacite')
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