Elsevier Developer Portal

About the APIs

This site, https://dev.elsevier.com, is for developers looking to get programmatic access to:

• journals and books published by Elsevier on ScienceDirect full-text platform;
• citation data and abstracts from virtually all relevant scholarly journals, as indexed by Scopus, Elsevier's citation database.
• research metrics available on SciVal, Elsevier’s platform for research performance benchmarking.
• engineering resources available on Engineering Village.
• curated abstracts, indices and other metadata indexed by Embase, Elsevier's biomedical abstract and indexing database.

Elsevier APIs are available only to eligible customers, approved partners and other authorized integrations with a verified entitlement. An API key identifies an application but does not itself grant access to Elsevier data or content. Access to individual products, metadata and content is determined by the verified entitlement and applicable terms.

APIs are also available for OAuth authentication; for electronic holdings exchange in KBART format and for checking a user's access rights for specific publications. These APIs are made available to customers and partners upon request, subject to approval.