Summary
Turn a half-remembered citation into a verified one.
Crossref is the authority on what a DOI actually points at, which makes this the cheap way to check a reference an assistant produced before it ends up in a bibliography. Funder and journal search extend the same index to questions about where research is published and who paid for it.
What it is
A search layer over Crossref, the registry that mints and records DOIs. Queries return catalogued metadata — authors, titles, journals, funding — rather than the paper's text.
What you get
- Searches by keyword, title or author across the Crossref index
- Full metadata for one work, fetched by its DOI
- Journal search, for placing a title or checking what a venue publishes
- Funder search, for tracing which organizations back a line of research
Requirements
Python 3.10 or newer. No account and no key — Crossref's index is public.
Setup effort
Build from source — clone the repository and build it, then point your client at the binary