oampy 0.2.1

Open Access Monitor API Client

oampy is a Python package and command line tool that allows to access data from the Open Access Monitor (OAM), which is run by Forschungszentrum Jülich.

Installation

… via PyPI

pip install oampy

Prerequisite

Create an environment variable OAM_EMAIL with your email address. If the variable isn’t created before using this package, your username@hostname will be used to populate the user agent field in the request headers instead. Since version 2.1 you need a token to use the API. Therefore, you must create an environment variable OAM_TOKEN with your token. See also Usage Terms below.

Usage Examples

Command Line

# set environment variable OAM_EMAIL
export OAM_EMAIL="[e-mail]"
# set environment variable OAM_TOKEN
export OAM_TOKEN="YOUR_SECRET_OAM_API_TOKEN"
# fetch metadata of journal given by ISSN
oampy journal "0360-4012"
# fetch metadata of publication given by DOI
oampy publication "10.1007/s11263-011-0505-4"

Interpreter

# import package os
import os
# set environment variable OAM_EMAIL
os.environ["OAM_EMAIL"] = "[e-mail]"
# set environment variable OAM_TOKEN
os.environ["OAM_TOKEN"] = "YOUR_SECRET_OAM_API_TOKEN"
# import package oampy
import oampy
# fetch metadata of journal
journal = oampy.get_journal("0360-4012")
# fetch metadata of publication
publication = oampy.get_publication("10.1007/s11263-011-0505-4")

Usage Terms

Open Access Monitor

The database of the Open Access Monitor Germany is published under the Open Database License 1.0.

The data can be reused under the following conditions:

• Reuse of larger amounts of data and use of the API: please contact us.

• Reuse of the data by download via the OAM application: CC BY 4.0

https://open-access-monitor.de