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Changelog
| API Version | Schema Versions | Date Released | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
2.11.0 |
- Scholar: 1.6.5 - Patent: 1.6.0 |
Oct 25, 2023 | - Released the Aggregation API out of beta. - Added Aggregation API endpoints to Swagger UI. |
2.10.0 |
- Scholar: 1.6.5 - Patent: 1.6.0 |
Aug 2, 2023 | - Added and improved API error and validation messages. - Increased the size of result sets that are supported by offset/size based pagination to 10,000 results. - Released the beta Aggregation API. |
2.9.0 |
- Scholar: 1.6.5 - Patent: 1.6.0 |
May 17, 2023 | - Added authors.affiliations.name_original to the scholar API. - Added support for min_score in the request body. - Added max_score to the API response. |
2.8.0 |
- Scholar: 1.6.4 - Patent: 1.6.0 |
Feb 20, 2023 | - Added group_by to the patent API to support group by patent family queries. |
2.5.3 |
- Scholar: 1.6.3 - Patent: 1.4.0 |
Sep 12, 2022 | - Added scholarly request fields: has_affiliation_ror - Added query parser to normalise string based queries. |
2.5.0 |
- Scholar: 1.6.2 - Patent: 1.4.0 |
Jun 9, 2022 | - Added scholarly request fields: ids.doi, ids.pmid, ids.pmcid, ids.magid, ids.coreid and ids.openalex - Added data schema endpoints. |
2.4.0 |
- Scholar: 1.6.1 - Patent: 1.3.1 |
Feb 15, 2022 | - Added scholarly request fields: author.affiliation.ror_id, author.affiliation.name_original, source.is_diamond, author.affiliation.address.city, author.affiliation.address.state_code, author.affiliation.address.country_code, author.affiliation.type, has_affiliation_ror - Added scholarly response field: authors.affiliations.ids - Added maxResultPerPage subscription plan parameter to the API usage endpoints |
2.2.2 |
- Scholar: 1.5.2 - Patent: 1.2.7 |
Jun 29, 2021 | - Added Patent response fields biblio.parties.examiners - Added patent request fields has_examiner - Added language support in request - Added scholarly search fields reference.lens_id, in_analytics_set |
2.1.1 |
- Scholar: 1.5.0 - Patent: 1.2.5 |
May 19, 2021 | - Added Patent response fields biblio.references_cited.citations.cited_phase, biblio.references_cited.patent_count - Added patent request fields earliest_priority_claim_date, sequence.organism.tax_id, sequence.organism.name, sequence.organism.name.exact - Added scholarly fields source.issn.type, date_published_parts |
2.1.0 |
- Scholar: 1.5.0 - Patent: 1.1.0 |
February 22, 2021 | - Added Scholarly GET endpoint for retrieving scholarly works by Lens_id- Added has_inpadoc, created and earliest_priority_date to the Patent request fields - Expanded the coverage of the default search field for string based queries - Performance improvements for Scholarly endpoints |
2.0.0 |
- Scholar: 1.4.0 - Patent: 1.0.0 |
December 16, 2020 | - Added Patent API endpoints - Added support for un-stemmed search |
1.3.2 |
Scholar: 1.3.2 |
March 25, 2020 | - Added keyword fields author.affiliation.name.exact, source.title.exact, funding.organisation.exact for search request |
1.3.0 |
Scholar: 1.3.0 |
March 5, 2020 | - Added GET endpoints for Scholarly Search and Collections - Added author identifier fields (MAG, ORCID) - See Lens Release 6.7 notes for details |
1.2.0 |
Scholar: 1.2.0 |
September 9, 2019 | - Added Lens partner option - Bug fixes - Performance improvements - See Lens Release 6.4 notes for details |
1.1.0 |
Scholar: 1.1.0 |
July 22, 2019 | - Added the ability to search within a scholarly collection (user feedback) - Bug fixes |
1.0.0 |
Scholar: 1.0.0 |
June 27, 2019 | - API to access the full corpus of Scholarly works |
beta |
Scholar: beta |
April 29, 2019 |