Published at October 25th, 2025 Last updated 9 days ago

Unpaywall

Unpaywall is an Open Access database, harvesting content from more than 25,000 Gold OA journals, hybrid journals, institutional repositories, and disciplinary repositories.

The integration with Unpaywall supports researchers by expanding the range of available import data sources with an OA database indexing over 25 million publications, and providing researchers access to  online version of a record.

This import source is available as of 5.19.0 of Pure

 

Overview

Content type  License / subscription Available for Automated search Integrated with Available Updates
Research output No No No

 

Set up online source

Go to Administrator > Research outputs > Import sources > Unpaywall

Setting Description Notes
Enabled Toggles it available for users or not.  
Email The email is used as authorization for performing searches. The email doesn't have to be registered with the service  
Accept repository URLs.
  • If set to False, links from the source data to repositories are ignored. 
  • If set to True, links will be added to the metadata on the imported record.
 

 

Unpaywall to Pure type mapping

N/A

 

Unpaywall to Pure data mapping

Data Format: https://unpaywall.org/data-format

Table with mapping of fields to Pure.

Unpaywall field Pure field
genre Maps to above type map and defines the content type in Pure
title Title
year Publication year
doi Source id (External id)
doi DOI
doi_url DOI / Link
best_oa_location > url Link
publisher Publisher
z_authors > orcid Author orcid id
z_authors > given + family Author first name and last name
z_authors > affiliation Author organizations
best_oa_location > version Publication Status
best_oa_location > oa_locations (version = publishedVersion) > url
 
Full text file link
best_oa_location > oa_locations (version = publishedVersion) > url Full text file title
best_oa_location > oa_locations (version = publishedVersion) > license
 
Full text file license
oa_status DOI status
published_date Publication date
journal_name Journal title
journal_issns Journal issns
 
 

 

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