EPFL

EPFL Infoscience Institutional Repository

Infoscience is EPFL's institutional repository and CRIS, self-hosted on EPFL infrastructure and running DSpace-CRIS. It exposes a HAL/HATEOAS REST API rooted at /server/api with 40+ link relations, and an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider with a single context, openaire4, declaring compliance with the OpenAIRE Guidelines for Literature Repositories v4.0. Records carry DataCite Kernel 4 metadata and ORCID name identifiers. Harvesting is supported from earliestDatestamp 2004-08-31 at second granularity. Anonymous reads of /server/api/core/items return 401, so OAI-PMH is the usable public harvesting surface.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api

Other Resources

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OAI-PMH
https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/oai/openaire4?verb=Identify
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Support
https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/services-researchers/infoscience-en/
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/refs/heads/main/conformance/epfl-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: epfl:infoscience
name: EPFL Infoscience Institutional Repository
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: infoscience.epfl.ch is EPFL's own host, not an account on a vendor's platform. The software
  is DSpace-CRIS — the OAI provider identifies itself as "DSpace-CRIS OAI-PMH Data Provider" — so the
  CONTRACT SHAPE is DSpace's, and no DSpace spec is saved under EPFL's slug. The endpoint, the identifiers
  (oai:infoscience.epfl.ch:20.500.14299/…) and the adminEmail (infoscienceAdmin@epfl.ch) are EPFL's.
description: Infoscience is EPFL's institutional repository and CRIS, self-hosted on EPFL infrastructure
  and running DSpace-CRIS. It exposes a HAL/HATEOAS REST API rooted at /server/api with 40+ link relations,
  and an OAI-PMH 2.0 provider with a single context, openaire4, declaring compliance with the OpenAIRE
  Guidelines for Literature Repositories v4.0. Records carry DataCite Kernel 4 metadata and ORCID name
  identifiers. Harvesting is supported from earliestDatestamp 2004-08-31 at second granularity. Anonymous
  reads of /server/api/core/items return 401, so OAI-PMH is the usable public harvesting surface.
humanURL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/
baseURL: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
tags:
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- DataCite
- ORCID
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/api
- type: OAI-PMH
  url: https://infoscience.epfl.ch/server/oai/openaire4?verb=Identify
- type: Support
  url: https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/services-researchers/infoscience-en/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/epfl-conformance.yml