Get a single source

It's easy to get a source from from the API with: /sources/<entity_id>. Here's an example:
Get the source with the OpenAlex ID S137773608:
https://api.openalex.org/sources/S137773608​
That will return an Source object, describing everything OpenAlex knows about the source with that ID:
{
    "id": "https://openalex.org/S137773608",
    "issn_l": "0028-0836",
    "issn": [
        "1476-4687",
        "0028-0836"
    ],
    "display_name": "Nature",
    // other fields removed for brevity
}
You can make up to 50 of these queries at once by requesting a list of entities and filtering on IDs using OR syntax.
Sources are also available via an alias: /journals
External IDs
You can look up journals using external IDs such as an ISSN:
Get the source with ISSN: 2041-1723:
https://api.openalex.org/sources/issn:2041-1723​
Available external IDs for sources are:
External ID
URN
ISSN
issn
Fatcat
fatcat
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)
mag
Wikidata
wikidata
Select fields
You can use select to limit the fields that are returned in a source object. More details are here.
Display only the id and display_name for a source object
https://api.openalex.org/sources/S137773608?select=id,display_name​

External ID	URN
ISSN	`issn`
Fatcat	`fatcat`
Microsoft Academic Graph (MAG)	`mag`
Wikidata	`wikidata`

Source object

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