ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

ETH Zurich – e-rara OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for e-rara, the platform of digitized rare books held by Swiss institutions, operated by ETH Library. The Identify response names adminEmail issue-erara@library.ethz.ch and an earliest datestamp of 2009-11-10, confirming ETH Library operation. The underlying software is a Visual Library Server; the service and the contact are ETH's.

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https://www.e-rara.ch/

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OAI-PMH
https://www.e-rara.ch/oai?verb=Identify

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: eth-zurich:eth-zurich-e-rara-oai-pmh
x-operator: institution
name: ETH Zurich – e-rara OAI-PMH
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 interface for e-rara, the platform of digitized rare books held by Swiss institutions,
  operated by ETH Library. The Identify response names adminEmail issue-erara@library.ethz.ch and an earliest
  datestamp of 2009-11-10, confirming ETH Library operation. The underlying software is a Visual Library
  Server; the service and the contact are ETH's.
humanURL: https://www.e-rara.ch/
baseURL: https://www.e-rara.ch/oai/
tags:
- Digital Collections
- OAI-PMH
properties:
- type: OAI-PMH
  url: https://www.e-rara.ch/oai?verb=Identify
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.e-rara.ch/