Reference

Detailed, authoritative documentation. Use these pages when you need the exact contract, not the high-level concept.

• REST API

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  Every endpoint, grouped by domain, with embedded Swagger UI.

• Configuration

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  Environment variables, settings.json structure, and where each knob lives in the UI.

• Database schema

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  Every table, key columns, and what writes to each one.

• External APIs

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  OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, arXiv, bioRxiv — what ALMa fetches, with what rate limits.

• Scoring formulas

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  The 10-weight Discovery scorer, in numbers.