Scholarly literature search in every discipline (Crossref
Scholarly literature search in every discipline (Crossref: articles, preprints, books, proceedings, datasets), filtered by author, years, type or abstract, sorted by relevance, date or citations; a DOI returns that work. Each work has DOI, title, authors with ORCID, venue, date, citation counts, licence, open-access links, the abstract where CC-licensed for commercial use, and retraction, correction and concern notices. For citation checks and literature reviews. No matches: not charged.
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Endpoint
POST https://jotowl.com/v1/literature
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | jotowl.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 1 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | no answer |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"limit": 2,
"query": "aspirin"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"body": {
"properties": {
"author": {
"description": "Author name, e.g. Ioannidis",
"maxLength": 300,
"type": "string"
},
"from_year": {
"description": "Published in or after this year",
"type": "integer"
},
"has_abstract": {
"description": "Only works whose abstract is returned (Creative Commons, in force, commercial use allowed)",
"type": "boolean"
},
"limit": {
"description": "Maximum works to return, default 10",
"maximum": 50,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"query": {
"description": "Search terms, e.g. aspirin, or a DOI for that one work",
"maxLength": 300,
"type": "string"
},
"sort": {
"description": "relevance (default), newest or most_cited",
"enum": [
"relevance",
"newest",
"most_cited"
],
"type": "string"
},
"to_year": {
"description": "Published in or before this year",
"type": "integer"
},
"type": {
"description": "Crossref work type, e.g. journal-article, posted-content (preprint), book-chapter, proceedings-article, dataset, dissertation (default: any)",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"type": "object"
},
"bodyType": {
"enum": [
"json",
"form-data",
"text"
],
"type": "string"
},
"method": {
"enum": [
"POST"
],
"type": "string"
},
"type": {
"const": "http",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type",
"method",
"bodyType",
"body"
],
"type": "object"
},
"output": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"properties": {
"filters": {
"type": "object"
},
"query": {
"type": "string"
},
"retracted": {
"description": "Returned works retracted or withdrawn",
"type": "integer"
},
"returned": {
"type": "integer"
},
"source": {
"type": "object"
},
"total": {
"description": "Works Crossref matches in all (with has_abstract, before the licence check)",
"type": "integer"
},
"with_abstract": {
"description": "Returned works with an abstract",
"type": "integer"
},
"works": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"abstract": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"authors": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"affiliation": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"name": {
"type": "string"
},
"orcid": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"maxItems": 50,
"type": "array"
},
"authors_total": {
"type": "integer"
},
"cited_by": {
"description": "Citations Crossref counts",
"type": [
"integer",
"null"
]
},
"doi": {
"type": "string"
},
"full_text": {
"items": {
"properties": {
"content_type": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"url": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"type": "object"
},
"type": "array"
},
"issn": {
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"issue": {
"type": [
"string",
"null"
]
},
"issues": {
"description": "Problems the record shows",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"type": "array"
},
"license": {
"description": "Licence URL as deposited: the one in force on the version of record where there is one",
"type": [
"string",
"null"