# Suverse OpenAlex Sources Search

> Suverse OpenAlex Sources Search is a paid API for AI agents from proxy.suverse.io, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Search OpenAlex academic publication venues (journals, conferences, repositories) by name and return matching venues with IDs and metadata

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://proxy.suverse.io/v1/data/suverse-openalex-sources
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/suverse-openalex-sources-search-802f3e1f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_UpHSPaQ5USCcHJ84puMy4

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability suverse-openalex-sources-search-802f3e1f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you look up 'Nature Communications' in OpenAlex and get me its venue ID and metadata so I can validate it as a publication source?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to discover or validate academic publication venues (journals, conferences, repositories) by name without requiring an OpenAlex API key. It is ideal for agents building citation pipelines, enriching paper metadata, or resolving venue identifiers programmatically. Prefer it over direct OpenAlex API calls when key management is not available or when operating in a pay-per-use agentic context.

## Known failure modes

- No matching venues found for the provided name query — returns empty results array
- Ambiguous name returns many loosely related venues requiring further filtering
- Service unavailable or timeout if OpenAlex upstream is down
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient or wallet not configured
- Malformed request body returns validation error

## How this service works

Search OpenAlex sources (journals, conferences, repositories) by name, no key. Returns matching venues with ID, name, and metadata. For AI agents discovering and validating publication venues.

## Output

Returns a list of matching OpenAlex source records including the venue's OpenAlex ID, display name, and associated metadata such as type, ISSN, publisher, homepage URL, and works count for each matched venue.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "body": {
     "properties": {}
    },
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "POST",
      "PUT",
      "PATCH"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "bodyType": {
     "enum": [
      "json",
      "form-data",
      "text"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

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