École Normale Supérieure de Paris

HAL-ENS Open Archive — ENS-PARIS collection

ENS research output is deposited into the ENS-PARIS collection of HAL, the French national open archive operated by CCSD (CNRS). The collection is real and substantial — HAL's ENS-scoped Search API returns 84,784 records — and it is harvestable as the OAI-PMH set collection:ENS-PARIS. The data and the curation are ENS's; the platform, the protocol endpoints and the API contract are CCSD's, so nothing is stored under this institution and the surface is recorded as a tenant relationship rather than an ENS API. The ENS portal front end at hal-ens.archives-ouvertes.fr is live but serves a bot challenge to automated clients.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
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APIReference
https://api.hal.science/docs/

Other Resources

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ResearchRepository
https://hal-ens.archives-ouvertes.fr/
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x-oai-pmh
https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=collection:ENS-PARIS
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ens-paris/refs/heads/main/conformance/ens-paris-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ens-paris:hal-ens
name: HAL-ENS Open Archive — ENS-PARIS collection
x-operator: tenant
description: ENS research output is deposited into the ENS-PARIS collection of HAL, the French national
  open archive operated by CCSD (CNRS). The collection is real and substantial — HAL's ENS-scoped Search
  API returns 84,784 records — and it is harvestable as the OAI-PMH set collection:ENS-PARIS. The data
  and the curation are ENS's; the platform, the protocol endpoints and the API contract are CCSD's, so
  nothing is stored under this institution and the surface is recorded as a tenant relationship rather
  than an ENS API. The ENS portal front end at hal-ens.archives-ouvertes.fr is live but serves a bot challenge
  to automated clients.
humanURL: https://hal-ens.archives-ouvertes.fr/
baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/ENS-PARIS/
tags:
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- HAL
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://hal-ens.archives-ouvertes.fr/
- type: x-oai-pmh
  url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/?verb=ListIdentifiers&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&set=collection:ENS-PARIS
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.hal.science/docs/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ens-paris-conformance.yml