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OPENALEX

OpenAlex

OpenAlex is an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and related research metadata.

Description is untrusted, display-only upstream metadata. It never becomes policy, OAuth scope authority, or an agent instruction.

Pakkawork boundary

Research catalogue metadata only. No Pakkawork OAuth, credential, host, quota, executor, or verifier is enabled.

No Pakkawork execution adapter is enabled. Hosted account-authorisation availability is workspace-specific and checked separately in the dashboard.Check workspace connection options
Attributed source

14

Action summaries

Display-only definitions

0

Trigger types

Not installed instances

1

Auth modes

Field names, never values

No

Execution

No runtime adapter

Authentication map

What setup is declared?

Only field names, types, and required markers are shown. Secret values, default auth URLs, credential material, and inferred OAuth scopes are excluded.
API_KEY

API_KEY

openalex_api_key

Provider setup

Developer setup

No fields declared in this snapshot.

User connection

  • OpenAlex API Keygeneric_api_key · stringRequired

Capability index

Actions and trigger definitions

Static summaries are available. Live schemas remain disabled until PROVIDER_HUB_API_KEY is configured server-side.

Showing 1–14 of 14 actions

Add Collection Entities

OPENALEX_ADD_COLLECTION_ENTITIES

Bulk-add one or more matching OpenAlex entity IDs to an owned collection without duplicating existing memberships.

Untrusted display-only summary

Autocomplete Entities

OPENALEX_AUTOCOMPLETE_ENTITIES

Resolve a partial name or title to likely OpenAlex entity IDs before filtering or retrieving metadata.

Untrusted display-only summary

Create Collection

OPENALEX_CREATE_COLLECTION

Create a private, single-entity-type OpenAlex collection, optionally with an initial bounded set of entity IDs.

Untrusted display-only summary

Delete Collection

OPENALEX_DELETE_COLLECTION

Permanently delete exactly one owned private OpenAlex collection and all of its collection memberships. This does not delete the underlying OpenAlex entities.

Untrusted display-only summary

Download Work Content

OPENALEX_DOWNLOAD_WORK_CONTENT

Download an OpenAlex-cached PDF or gzipped GROBID TEI file for a work. Choose the format matching the work's has_content flags. Each call currently costs $0.01, and source copyright terms still apply.

Untrusted display-only summary

Get Collection

OPENALEX_GET_COLLECTION

Get metadata for one private OpenAlex collection owned by the connected user.

Untrusted display-only summary

Get Metadata Entity

OPENALEX_GET_ENTITY

Retrieve one OpenAlex work, author, source, institution, topic, keyword, publisher, funder, award, taxonomy item, country, continent, or language by its supported identifier. Returns the provider's entity object directly; use select to limit its top-level fields.

Untrusted display-only summary

Get Rate Limit Status

OPENALEX_GET_RATE_LIMIT_STATUS

Validate the connected OpenAlex API key and inspect daily budget, prepaid balance, reset timing, and current endpoint costs before expensive queries or downloads.

Untrusted display-only summary

List Collection Entities

OPENALEX_LIST_COLLECTION_ENTITIES

List one page of entity IDs in an owned private collection together with collection metadata and page totals.

Untrusted display-only summary

List My Collections

OPENALEX_LIST_MY_COLLECTIONS

List private OpenAlex collections owned by the connected API-key user, optionally finding collections that contain an entity.

Untrusted display-only summary

Query Metadata Entities

OPENALEX_QUERY_ENTITIES

Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group one OpenAlex metadata resource other than works, including authors, venues, organizations, taxonomy, geography, awards, and enumerations. Returns one cursor-controlled page.

Untrusted display-only summary

Query Works

OPENALEX_QUERY_WORKS

Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group scholarly works. Returns one cursor-controlled page and its OpenAlex query cost; use the snapshot for whole-catalog exports.

Untrusted display-only summary

Remove Collection Entities

OPENALEX_REMOVE_COLLECTION_ENTITIES

Bulk-remove one or more entity memberships from an owned private OpenAlex collection without deleting the underlying OpenAlex entities.

Untrusted display-only summary

Update Collection

OPENALEX_UPDATE_COLLECTION

Update a private collection's name or description, or change its entity type while the collection is empty. Provide at least one of display_name, description, or entity_type.

Untrusted display-only summary

Provenance

Versioned facts, explicit trust.

The detail snapshot comes from an attributed MIT-licensed repository revision. Safe local icons use exact-match CC0 Simple Icons symbols; unmatched brands use monograms.

Repository
https://github.com/provider-directoryHQ/provider-directory
Commit
85e33f6a81dfe987f6fc3637d48d45052cea8ca5
Generated
2026-09-12
Trust policy
untrusted_display_only

Remote text is plain display metadata only. It must never become an agent prompt, execution policy, OAuth grant, or executable instruction.