Academic Publishers API — Organizations and Journals

Search and retrieve academic publishing organizations — commercial publishers, university presses, and society publishers — from Hexagraph.

The /publishers endpoints expose Hexagraph’s index of academic publishing organizations — commercial publishers, university presses, and society publishers. Publishers own one or more Sources (journals and repositories), which in turn host scholarly Outputs. Publishers are identified by the OA:P prefix system.

List publishers

search · string

Search for publishers by name. Partial matches are supported (e.g. elsevier matches “Elsevier BV”).

filter · string

Narrow results with key-value filters. Multiple filters may be combined with a comma.

page · integer · default: "1"

Page number for paginated results. Starts at 1.

per_page · integer · default: "25"

Number of results returned per page. Maximum value is 200.

curl "https://hexagraph-core.onrender.com/publishers?search=elsevier"

[
  {
    "id": "OA:P4310320595",
    "name": "Elsevier BV"
  },
  {
    "id": "OA:P4310321948",
    "name": "Elsevier Ireland"
  }
]

Get a single publisher

Fetch a specific publishing organization by its OA:P identifier.

curl "https://hexagraph-core.onrender.com/publishers/OA:P4310320595"

{
  "id": "OA:P4310320595",
  "name": "Elsevier BV"
}

Response fields

id · string · required

Unique identifier for the publisher. Always prefixed with OA:P (e.g. OA:P4310320595).

name · string · required

Full display name of the publishing organization (e.g. "Elsevier BV", "Springer Nature", "Oxford University Press").

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Related endpoints: publishers own Sources (journals and repositories), which publish scholarly Outputs.