Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

OPEN FAU DSpace REST API

The REST/HAL API of OPEN FAU, FAU's DSpace 7.4 institutional repository, run by the University Library on FAU's own host. Verified live on 2026-08-30: the API root at /server/api returns dspaceName "OPEN FAU", dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.4" and the HAL link set; /server/api/core/communities returns the real faculty community tree; /server/api/discover/search/objects answers discovery queries anonymously; /server/api/authn/status returns authenticated=false for an anonymous caller. Only /server/api/core/items requires a session (HTTP 401). The CONTRACT here is DSpace's, not FAU's — it is the same REST contract every DSpace 7 site serves — so no specification is saved in this repository; what is credited to FAU is operating the deployment and leaving read access open. Note that open.fau.de sits behind an Anubis bot check on some paths: a request for /llms.txt returns HTTP 200 carrying a challenge page, which is a soft-200 and not a machine-readable file.

Documentation GitHub

Documentation

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Documentation

https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/

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Authentication

https://open.fau.de/server/api/authn/status

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:open-fau-rest
name: OPEN FAU DSpace REST API
x-operator: institution
description: 'The REST/HAL API of OPEN FAU, FAU''s DSpace 7.4 institutional repository, run by the University
  Library on FAU''s own host. Verified live on 2026-08-30: the API root at /server/api returns dspaceName
  "OPEN FAU", dspaceVersion "DSpace 7.4" and the HAL link set; /server/api/core/communities returns the
  real faculty community tree; /server/api/discover/search/objects answers discovery queries anonymously;
  /server/api/authn/status returns authenticated=false for an anonymous caller. Only /server/api/core/items
  requires a session (HTTP 401). The CONTRACT here is DSpace''s, not FAU''s — it is the same REST contract
  every DSpace 7 site serves — so no specification is saved in this repository; what is credited to FAU
  is operating the deployment and leaving read access open. Note that open.fau.de sits behind an Anubis
  bot check on some paths: a request for /llms.txt returns HTTP 200 carrying a challenge page, which is
  a soft-200 and not a machine-readable file.'
humanURL: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
baseURL: https://open.fau.de/server/api
tags:
- Repository
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Research
- Library
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://open.fau.de/server/api/authn/status