Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

OPEN FAU OAI-PMH Metadata Service

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 service for OPEN FAU, the university's open-access publication repository. Verified live on 2026-08-30: Identify returns repositoryName "OPEN FAU", baseURL https://open.fau.de/server/oai/request, adminEmail stelica.valianos@fau.de, deletedRecord transient and an earliest datestamp of 1998-12-31. ListMetadataFormats offers eight prefixes — oai_dc, qdc, mods, didl, ore, mets, marc and dim — and ListRecords returns real Dublin Core carrying both German URN:NBN national identifiers and DOIs under FAU's own DataCite prefix. The repository software is DSpace 7.4, but the endpoint runs on FAU's own registrable domain, is administered from an fau.de address and names OPEN FAU as the repository, so operating it is an institutional act and the surface is credited to FAU. The legacy OPUS FAU endpoint at opus4.kobv.de redirects here.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:open-fau-oai
name: OPEN FAU OAI-PMH Metadata Service
x-operator: institution
description: 'Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 service for OPEN FAU, the
  university''s open-access publication repository. Verified live on 2026-08-30: Identify returns repositoryName
  "OPEN FAU", baseURL https://open.fau.de/server/oai/request, adminEmail stelica.valianos@fau.de, deletedRecord
  transient and an earliest datestamp of 1998-12-31. ListMetadataFormats offers eight prefixes — oai_dc,
  qdc, mods, didl, ore, mets, marc and dim — and ListRecords returns real Dublin Core carrying both German
  URN:NBN national identifiers and DOIs under FAU''s own DataCite prefix. The repository software is DSpace
  7.4, but the endpoint runs on FAU''s own registrable domain, is administered from an fau.de address
  and names OPEN FAU as the repository, so operating it is an institutional act and the surface is credited
  to FAU. The legacy OPUS FAU endpoint at opus4.kobv.de redirects here.'
humanURL: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
baseURL: https://open.fau.de/server/oai/request
tags:
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata Harvesting
- Open Access
- Library
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-conformance.yml