Use scenario where OpenAlex is stored locally?

[rgoldsto]

To try to speed up many accesses to OpenAlex, my lab is interested in having a fork of OpenAlex run locally on one of our machines (following the instructions at https://docs.openalex.org/download-all-data/download-to-your-machine). Can OpenAlexR be configured to make its queries to our local machine's data storage?

[trangdata]

Hi Rob 👋🏽 I'm not sure about the improved efficiency of querying against your own database, but the oa_fetch() function has an endpoint parameter that you can use to point it to your local database.

https://docs.ropensci.org/openalexR/reference/oa_fetch.html