Source connectors
ResearchForge connectors are local-first and explicit about outbound data, credentials, and API terms.
Common sources
Section titled “Common sources”- OpenAlex
- Crossref
- Semantic Scholar
- PubMed and Europe PMC
- arXiv
- NASA ADS
- DOAJ and CORE
- bioRxiv / medRxiv
- DataCite, Zenodo, OSF, Dryad, figshare, and other dataset sources
Batch search
Section titled “Batch search”rforge --project ./my-review search batch --queries queries.txt \ --sources all --out ./my-review/searches --statsUseful presets include scholarly-fast, biomedical, preprints, datasets, open, oa, and chemistry.
Credentials
Section titled “Credentials”Secrets stay outside project manifests and are redacted from provenance/output. Examples:
| Source | Config |
|---|---|
| PubMed | RFORGE_PUBMED_API_KEY, RFORGE_PUBMED_TOOL, RFORGE_PUBMED_EMAIL |
| Semantic Scholar | API key when endpoint tier requires it |
| NASA ADS | RFORGE_ADS_TOKEN |
| CORE | API key when required |
Normal tests use fixtures or mocked HTTP servers, not live APIs.