# OpenBU Repository OAI-PMH API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/boston/openbu-oai/  
**Provider:** Boston University — https://apis.io/providers/boston/  
**Base URL:** https://open.bu.edu/server/oai/request  
**Documentation:** https://open.bu.edu/

OpenBU Repository OAI-PMH API is one of 2 APIs that [Boston University](https://apis.io/providers/boston/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library, Open Data, Repository, OAI-PMH, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

OpenBU is Boston University Libraries' open-access institutional repository, built on DSpace. It exposes a publicly accessible OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint for harvesting metadata (theses, dissertations, journal articles, reports and more). The Identify verb resolves live with repository name "OpenBU" and supports standard OAI-PMH verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord, ListMetadataFormats, ListIdentifiers).

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://open.bu.edu/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/boston/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Boston University APIs (1)

- [AI API Access (Azure OpenAI / Amazon Bedrock)](https://apis.io/apis/boston/ai-api-access/)

## Tags

Library, Open Data, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Research

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