Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

DSpace Institutional Repository (Central Library)

The IIT Bombay Central Library institutional repository, running DSpace over theses, journal articles and conference papers. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface is the surface of interest and it is NOT currently verifiable: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/oai/request returns 403 Forbidden from Apache with a browser User-Agent, an XML Accept header and a same-host Referer, and its ErrorDocument 500s behind that. /jspui/ is 403 the same way, while /jspui/oai/request renders a genuine DSpace error page, so the application is alive and it is the /oai path that is denied at the web-server layer. /xmlui/OAI/request returns HTTP 200 with Content-Length 0 — a soft-200, not a response. The claim in this repo's June 2026 profile that the Identify verb returned a valid OAI-PMH 2.0 envelope has been withdrawn.

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ResearchRepository
https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/iit-bombay/refs/heads/main/conformance/iit-bombay-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: iit-bombay:dspace-oai-pmh
name: DSpace Institutional Repository (Central Library)
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Host dspace.library.iitb.ac.in is under the institution's own registrable domain
  and resolves to 103.21.126.134, the same address as www.library.iitb.ac.in. DSpace is vendor software,
  but the deployment, the host and the content are the institution's — the university pipeline's rule
  for OAI-PMH on an institution's own host.
description: 'The IIT Bombay Central Library institutional repository, running DSpace over theses, journal
  articles and conference papers. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface is the surface of interest and
  it is NOT currently verifiable: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/oai/request returns 403 Forbidden
  from Apache with a browser User-Agent, an XML Accept header and a same-host Referer, and its ErrorDocument
  500s behind that. /jspui/ is 403 the same way, while /jspui/oai/request renders a genuine DSpace error
  page, so the application is alive and it is the /oai path that is denied at the web-server layer. /xmlui/OAI/request
  returns HTTP 200 with Content-Length 0 — a soft-200, not a response. The claim in this repo''s June
  2026 profile that the Identify verb returned a valid OAI-PMH 2.0 envelope has been withdrawn.'
humanURL: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/
baseURL: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/oai/request
tags:
- Research Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Library
- Research
- Metadata
x-liveness:
  state: blocked
  probed: '2026-08-30'
  evidence:
  - url: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/
    status: 200
    note: meta-refresh to /jspui/
  - url: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 403
  - url: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/
    status: 403
  - url: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/jspui/oai/request?verb=Identify
    status: 404
    note: DSpace application error page
  - url: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/xmlui/OAI/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
    note: Content-Length 0 — soft-200
properties:
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://dspace.library.iitb.ac.in/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/iit-bombay-conformance.yml