List available paper corpora — papers

Queries the GitHub Releases API for the scienceverse/papers repository and returns a table of available paper corpora that can be loaded with papers_load().

Usage

papers_available(repo = "scienceverse/papers")

Arguments

repo: GitHub repository in "owner/repo" format; a private repository needs a GitHub token with access to it (see github_pat())

Value

a data frame with columns name, tag, size_mb, and cached

Examples

# \donttest{
if (online("api.github.com")) {
  # GitHub can refuse when its request limit is reached; then this says why
  tryCatch(papers_available(), error = function(e) message(conditionMessage(e)))
}
#>           name                    tag size_mb cached
#> 1     psychsci               psychsci     8.2  FALSE
#> 2         ece3        ece3-2026-06-21    55.3  FALSE
#> 3        elife       elife-2026-06-21    51.9  FALSE
#> 4     openmind    openmind-2026-06-21    12.6  FALSE
#> 5    frontiers   frontiers-2026-06-21    35.7  FALSE
#> 6          jdm         jdm-2026-06-21    24.9  FALSE
#> 7        iperc       iperc-2026-06-21    12.4  FALSE
#> 8         scan        scan-2026-06-21    29.1  FALSE
#> 9          joc         joc-2026-06-20    15.6  FALSE
#> 10     natcomm     natcomm-2026-06-20    39.2  FALSE
#> 11 psychsci_oa psychsci_oa-2026-06-20     8.2  FALSE
#> 12        jssm        jssm-2026-06-20    25.5  FALSE
#> 13     plosone     plosone-2026-06-20    30.3  FALSE
#> 14     plosbio     plosbio-2026-06-19    40.5  FALSE
#> 15     bmcoral     bmcoral-2026-06-19    21.4  FALSE
#> 16        ijos        ijos-2026-06-19    22.0  FALSE
#> 17      bmcmed      bmcmed-2026-06-19    30.5  FALSE
#> 18     plosmed     plosmed-2026-06-19    30.2  FALSE
#> 19    collabra    collabra-2026-06-19    31.7  FALSE
# }