ENS-PSL Library Catalogue (Koha REST + OAI-PMH)

The catalogue of the ten ENS-PSL libraries, hosted at catalogue.bib.ens.psl.eu under the institution's own domain and integrated by BibLibre. Two machine-readable interfaces answer publicly. The Koha REST API v1 serves unauthenticated /api/v1/public/* routes — verified against /api/v1/public/libraries, which returns the real ENS branch records with @ens.psl.eu contact addresses — and browses through a Swagger UI at /api/v1/.html; patron and staff routes require a library credential and no registration path is published. An OAI-PMH 2.0 provider at /cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl identifies as "bibliothèques de l'ENS-PSL" and exposes one set, CATALOGUE. Note the OAI provider advertises a baseURL of /opac/oai.pl which returns 404 from outside; the working base is the cgi-bin path recorded here. The interface contract is Koha's own — an open-source ILS every Koha library ships — so no OpenAPI is stored under this institution; the deployment, the domain and the records are ENS's.

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aid: ens-paris:library-catalog
name: ENS-PSL Library Catalogue (Koha REST + OAI-PMH)
x-operator: institution
description: The catalogue of the ten ENS-PSL libraries, hosted at catalogue.bib.ens.psl.eu under the
  institution's own domain and integrated by BibLibre. Two machine-readable interfaces answer publicly.
  The Koha REST API v1 serves unauthenticated /api/v1/public/* routes — verified against /api/v1/public/libraries,
  which returns the real ENS branch records with @ens.psl.eu contact addresses — and browses through a
  Swagger UI at /api/v1/.html; patron and staff routes require a library credential and no registration
  path is published. An OAI-PMH 2.0 provider at /cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl identifies as "bibliothèques de l'ENS-PSL"
  and exposes one set, CATALOGUE. Note the OAI provider advertises a baseURL of /opac/oai.pl which returns
  404 from outside; the working base is the cgi-bin path recorded here. The interface contract is Koha's
  own — an open-source ILS every Koha library ships — so no OpenAPI is stored under this institution;
  the deployment, the domain and the records are ENS's.
humanURL: https://catalogue.bib.ens.psl.eu/api/v1/.html
baseURL: https://catalogue.bib.ens.psl.eu/api/v1/
tags:
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Koha
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://catalogue.bib.ens.psl.eu/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://catalogue.bib.ens.psl.eu/api/v1/.html
- type: x-oai-pmh
  url: https://catalogue.bib.ens.psl.eu/cgi-bin/koha/oai.pl?verb=Identify
- type: Documentation
  url: https://bib.ens.psl.eu/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ens-paris-conformance.yml