# OPEN FAU DSpace REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/open-fau-rest/  
**Provider:** Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg — https://apis.io/providers/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/  
**Base URL:** https://open.fau.de/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/

OPEN FAU DSpace REST API is one of 3 APIs that [Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg](https://apis.io/providers/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Repository, Open Access, DSpace, Research, and Library. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

OPEN FAU is the institutional open-access publication repository of FAU, built on DSpace 7.4. Its REST/HAL API exposes communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery/search and browse endpoints for harvesting and integrating repository content. Read access to public content is open; submission and management endpoints require authentication.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg APIs (2)

- [OPEN FAU OAI-PMH Interface](https://apis.io/apis/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/open-fau-oai/)
- [FAU CRIS Converis Public Web Service](https://apis.io/apis/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/cris-converis-ws/)

## Tags

Repository, Open Access, DSpace, Research, Library

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