Which access method should I use?

Do you need live, filtered results?

Use the Graph API. For new integrations, use filter-based queries (V4).

If your application exchanges data with other scholarly knowledge graphs, use the SKG-IF API. For citation and link data between research products, use ScholeXplorer.

Do you need the whole Graph?

The Graph API's offset paging stops at 10,000 results per query; cursor paging goes further, but every record still arrives one page at a time. For analytics over the complete Graph, use the full Graph dataset or query it in the cloud. To explore the data model first, start with the Beginner's kit.

The guide to the Graph datasets compares the downloadable datasets and explains their release cadence.

Do you run a repository?

Use the Broker API to receive enrichments for your records, and the DSpace / EPrints API to add funding and project metadata.