# ETD@IISc DSpace 6 REST API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/iisc/etd-dspace-rest/  
**Provider:** Indian Institute of Science Bangalore — https://apis.io/providers/iisc/  
**Base URL:** https://etd.iisc.ac.in/rest  
**Documentation:** https://library.iisc.ac.in/

ETD@IISc DSpace 6 REST API is one of 7 APIs that [Indian Institute of Science Bangalore](https://apis.io/providers/iisc/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Research Repository, DSpace, Theses, Open Access, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.

Read-only REST API of ETD@IISc, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations repository IISc runs on DSpace 6 at its own etd.iisc.ac.in host, serving the Community / Collection / Item / Bitstream hierarchy as JSON. HOST CURRENTLY DEAD — re-probed 2026-09-01 with a browser User-Agent, every path (/, /rest, /rest/communities, /rest/items, /handle/2005/1, /oai/request) returns HTTP 502 with a 165-byte "The website is under maintenance" body on three consecutive attempts, and the Internet Archive holds no successful capture after 2026-05-16. The four OpenAPI documents below were written by API Evangelist against the documented DSpace 6 contract and confirmed against the live host during the 2026-06-03 enrichment run; they are stamped x-method generated with an x-host-status block recording the 502, and are retained as the record of an institution-operated deployment rather than as a callable surface. This single entry replaces the four separate apis[] records the tag split had created, which reported one deployment as four APIs.

## Operations (2)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/communities` | List communities |
| GET | `/communities/{communityId}` | Get a community |

## Machine-readable artifacts (10)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/openapi/iisc-communities-api-openapi.yml
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/openapi/iisc-collections-api-openapi.yml
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/openapi/iisc-items-api-openapi.yml
- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/openapi/iisc-bitstreams-api-openapi.yml
- **x-json-schema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/json-schema/iisc-item-schema.json
- **x-json-structure** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/json-structure/iisc-item-structure.json
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/examples/iisc-listItems-example.json
- **x-rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/rules/iisc-rules.yml
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/iisc-vocabulary.yml
- **x-json-ld** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/json-ld/iisc-context.jsonld

## Other Indian Institute of Science Bangalore APIs (6)

- [IISc Shibboleth Identity Provider (INFED / eduGAIN)](https://apis.io/apis/iisc/identity-federation/)
- [Journal of the Indian Institute of Science OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/iisc/jiisc-oai/)
- [IKEN Moodle LMS — web services and LTI 1.3 platform](https://apis.io/apis/iisc/courses-moodle/)
- [ePrints@IISc OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/iisc/eprints-oai/)
- [ROR registration — Indian Institute of Science](https://apis.io/apis/iisc/ror-registration/)
- [Crossref Open Funder Registry entry — Indian Institute of Science](https://apis.io/apis/iisc/crossref-funder-registry/)

## Tags

Research Repository, DSpace, Theses, Open Access, Metadata

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