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Guides

Task-focused recipes for getting real work done with OpenCite. Each guide assumes you have installed OpenCite and set up your API keys (see Getting Started).

  • :material-magnify: Searching

    Choose sources, filter by year and open access, sort by relevance, citations, or year, and surface the canonical papers in a field.

  • :material-link-variant: Lookup & Citations

    Resolve identifiers, enrich a paper across sources, and walk citation graphs forward and backward.

  • :material-file-pdf-box: PDFs & Conversion

    Retrieve PDFs, convert them to markdown, and download in batch with controlled concurrency.

  • :material-cog: Configuration

    Config files, environment variables, API keys, and publisher tokens, with the exact precedence rules.

  • :material-format-list-bulleted: Output Formats

    Text, JSON, BibTeX, and CSV, and when to use each.

  • :material-scale-balance: Redistribution & Licensing

    What OpenCite reports about open-access status and licensing, and what that means for pipelines that publish artifacts.