Indian Institute of Science Bangalore

Journal of the Indian Institute of Science OAI-PMH

Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting provider for the Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, served from IISc's own journal.iisc.ac.in host on an Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.22 (Public Knowledge Project) deployment. Verified live 2026-09-01 — verb=Identify returns 200 text/xml with repositoryName "Journal of the Indian Institute of Science", adminEmail journal@apc.iisc.ernet.in, protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2012-12-07T00:50:21Z, deletedRecord persistent, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ and gzip/deflate compression; verb=ListMetadataFormats returns 200 and verb=ListSets returns 200 with 51KB of real issue sets. The OJS REST API on the same host is closed — /index.php/iisc/api/v1/issues returns 403 api.403.unauthorized. The OJS software and its contract are PKP's and no OJS spec is saved under this institution; the deployment, the host, the journal and the metadata are IISc's.

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https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iisc/refs/heads/main/conformance/iisc-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: iisc:jiisc-oai
name: Journal of the Indian Institute of Science OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: Live OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting provider for the Journal of the Indian Institute of
  Science, served from IISc's own journal.iisc.ac.in host on an Open Journal Systems 3.3.0.22 (Public
  Knowledge Project) deployment. Verified live 2026-09-01 — verb=Identify returns 200 text/xml with repositoryName
  "Journal of the Indian Institute of Science", adminEmail journal@apc.iisc.ernet.in, protocolVersion
  2.0, earliestDatestamp 2012-12-07T00:50:21Z, deletedRecord persistent, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ
  and gzip/deflate compression; verb=ListMetadataFormats returns 200 and verb=ListSets returns 200 with
  51KB of real issue sets. The OJS REST API on the same host is closed — /index.php/iisc/api/v1/issues
  returns 403 api.403.unauthorized. The OJS software and its contract are PKP's and no OJS spec is saved
  under this institution; the deployment, the host, the journal and the metadata are IISc's.
humanURL: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/
baseURL: https://journal.iisc.ac.in/index.php/iisc/oai
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Metadata
- Scholarly Publishing
- Open Journal Systems
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/iisc-conformance.yml