DataCite Search Datasets

Overview

Search for research datasets with DOIs across all repositories worldwide (Zenodo, Figshare, Dryad, ICPSR, institutional repositories, and more). This is a dataset-focused search that automatically filters for resource type 'Dataset'. Returns DOI, title, description, creators, publisher, publication year, URL, and subjects. Covers millions of datasets registered via DataCite across thousands of repositories. Use this to find specific research datasets by topic, or to discover available data for a research question.

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

110ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "page_number": {
      "description": "Page number for pagination (default 1)",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "page_size": {
      "default": 10,
      "description": "Number of results per page (default 10, max 100)",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "publisher": {
      "description": "Filter by publisher/repository name (e.g., 'Zenodo', 'Dryad', 'figshare'). Note: uses free-text matching.",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "query": {
      "description": "Search query for datasets (e.g., 'iron intake physical function older adults', 'COVID-19 genomic surveillance', 'soil microbiome diversity'). Searches across titles, descriptions, subjects, and creator names.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "resource_type": {
      "default": "Dataset",
      "description": "Override resource type filter. Defaults to 'Dataset'. Other options: 'Software', 'Text', 'Image', 'Collection', 'Workflow', 'Model'.",
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "year": {
      "description": "Filter by publication year (e.g., 2024, 2023). Returns datasets published in that year only.",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "query": "BRCA1"
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_DataCite_search_datasets

Tool name

DataCite_search_datasets

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

Tags

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