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Source connectors

ResearchForge connectors are local-first and explicit about outbound data, credentials, and API terms.

  • 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
Terminal window
rforge --project ./my-review search batch --queries queries.txt \
--sources all --out ./my-review/searches --stats

Useful presets include scholarly-fast, biomedical, preprints, datasets, open, oa, and chemistry.

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.