# Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dash/  
**Provider:** Harvard University — https://apis.io/providers/harvard/  
**Base URL:** https://dash.harvard.edu/server/oai/request  
**Documentation:** https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/dash

Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace) is one of 14 APIs that [Harvard University](https://apis.io/providers/harvard/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research Repository, Open Access, OAI-PMH, DSpace, and Tenant. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

DASH (Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard) is Harvard's open-access institutional repository of 58,000+ scholarly works, exposing an open OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint and a DSpace 7 HAL REST API. TENANT, NOT INSTITUTION, and the DNS is what settles it: dash.harvard.edu is a CNAME to dash.lib.harvard.edu, which is a CNAME to harvard-dash.prod.4science.cloud, a 4Science-managed DSpace installation. This is the scholarbank.nus.edu.sg pattern - a hostname on the institution's own domain that resolves onto a vendor platform. The content, the collections and the Harvard DASH repository identifier are genuinely Harvard's; the REST contract is DSpace's and the operations are 4Science's. The relationship is recorded as a real institutional fact; no DSpace contract is saved under Harvard's slug.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://library.harvard.edu/services-tools/dash
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/harvard/refs/heads/main/examples/harvard-dash-oai-identify.xml

## Other Harvard University APIs (12)

- [Harvard Dataverse API](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dataverse/)
- [Harvard Dataverse OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dataverse-oai/)
- [Harvard Library LibraryCloud API (Open Metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/librarycloud/)
- [Harvard Art Museums API](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/art-museums/)
- [Harvard University Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/identity-federation/)
- [Legal Ed Skills Hub (Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/lil-lawskills/)
- [Caselaw Access Project bulk data (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/caselaw-access-project/)
- [Perma.cc API (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/perma/)
- [Harvard API Portal (HUIT)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/api-portal/)
- [HOLLIS library discovery (Ex Libris Primo VE tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/hollis/)
- [Harvard Figshare tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/figshare/)
- [Canvas LMS tenancy (Instructure)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/canvas/)

## Tags

Research Repository, Open Access, OAI-PMH, DSpace, Tenant

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dash/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/harvard/.