# Harvard Dataverse API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dataverse/  
**Provider:** Harvard University — https://apis.io/providers/harvard/  
**Base URL:** https://dataverse.harvard.edu/api  
**Documentation:** https://dataverse.harvard.edu/

Harvard Dataverse API is one of 14 APIs that [Harvard University](https://apis.io/providers/harvard/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Research Data, Research Repository, Dataverse, Open Data, and DataCite. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Native REST API of Harvard Dataverse, the institution's research data repository, running Dataverse 6.10.1 (build iqss-4) on Harvard's own AWS infrastructure with no vendor CNAME. Public read operations - search, dataset and file metadata, access to published data - are anonymous; deposit and administration take an X-Dataverse-key token. Harvard serves a live OpenAPI 3.0.3 document at /openapi covering 450 paths and 574 operations. IMPORTANT ATTRIBUTION NOTE: that contract is the Dataverse software's generic contract, shared with every other Dataverse installation - but Dataverse is written by Harvard's own Institute for Quantitative Social Science (github.com/IQSS/dataverse), so unlike every Figshare or Pure contract in this cohort, crediting Harvard here credits Harvard's own engineering. Datasets are minted under DOI prefix 10.7910, registered to DataCite provider harvardu.

## Machine-readable artifacts (5)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/harvard/refs/heads/main/openapi/harvard-dataverse-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/harvard/refs/heads/main/examples/harvard-dataverse-search-response.json
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/harvard/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Harvard University APIs (12)

- [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/)
- [Harvard DASH institutional repository (4Science-managed DSpace)](https://apis.io/apis/harvard/dash/)
- [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 Data, Research Repository, Dataverse, Open Data, DataCite

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