ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

ETH Zurich Research Collection OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the ETH Zurich Research Collection, served from ETH's own host. Verified live with Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListSets on 2026-08-19; serves the qdc, oai_dc, oai_datacite (DataCite schema kernel-4) and xoai metadata prefixes, plus a dedicated openaire_data context. The repository software is DSpace, but the endpoint, the host and the handle prefix (20.500.11850) are ETH's. Access is intermittently bot-mitigated: a rapid second request returned an ETH-authored "Access Restricted" notice citing scraping volume, which is a rate-limit response, not a dead surface.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/

Other Resources

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OAI-PMH
https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/oai/request?verb=Identify
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OAI-PMH
https://research-collection.ethz.ch/oai/openaire_data
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/eth-zurich/refs/heads/main/conformance/eth-zurich-domain-standards.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: eth-zurich:eth-zurich-research-collection-oai-pmh
x-operator: institution
name: ETH Zurich Research Collection OAI-PMH
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the ETH Zurich Research Collection, served from ETH''s
  own host. Verified live with Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListSets on 2026-08-19; serves the qdc,
  oai_dc, oai_datacite (DataCite schema kernel-4) and xoai metadata prefixes, plus a dedicated openaire_data
  context. The repository software is DSpace, but the endpoint, the host and the handle prefix (20.500.11850)
  are ETH''s. Access is intermittently bot-mitigated: a rapid second request returned an ETH-authored
  "Access Restricted" notice citing scraping volume, which is a rate-limit response, not a dead surface.'
humanURL: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/
baseURL: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/oai/request
tags:
- Research Data
- OAI-PMH
- Research Repository
properties:
- type: OAI-PMH
  url: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/oai/request?verb=Identify
- type: OAI-PMH
  url: https://research-collection.ethz.ch/oai/openaire_data
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.research-collection.ethz.ch/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/eth-zurich-domain-standards.yml