Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

KITopen OAI-PMH Interface

KITopen is KIT's central open-access institutional repository for the bibliographic data, full texts, images, research data and AV media of KIT scientists. It is built on dbkit, the web application framework the KIT Library wrote and operates itself, and exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface on KIT's own domain. Verified 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "KITopen", protocolVersion 2.0, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord "transient", earliestDatestamp 1999-01-27T00:00:00Z, adminEmail dbkit@bibliothek.kit.edu and repositoryIdentifier EVASTAR-Karlsruhe.de. verb=ListMetadataFormats advertises three prefixes (oai_dc, epicur, oai_datacite) and verb=ListSets serves a set hierarchy including open_access, openaire, openaire_data, dnb:dissertations and twenty document-type sets. Bibliographic metadata is published under CC0. This is the one surface in this repository that is unambiguously KIT's own engineering.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/kitopen.php
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Documentation
https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php

Other Resources

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Identify
https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=Identify
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MetadataFormats
https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=ListMetadataFormats
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Sets
https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=ListSets
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Repository
https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/conformance/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml
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APIsJSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: karlsruhe-institute-of-technology:kitopen-oai
x-operator: institution
name: KITopen OAI-PMH Interface
description: 'KITopen is KIT''s central open-access institutional repository for the bibliographic data,
  full texts, images, research data and AV media of KIT scientists. It is built on dbkit, the web application
  framework the KIT Library wrote and operates itself, and exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting
  interface on KIT''s own domain. Verified 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "KITopen",
  protocolVersion 2.0, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord "transient", earliestDatestamp
  1999-01-27T00:00:00Z, adminEmail dbkit@bibliothek.kit.edu and repositoryIdentifier EVASTAR-Karlsruhe.de.
  verb=ListMetadataFormats advertises three prefixes (oai_dc, epicur, oai_datacite) and verb=ListSets
  serves a set hierarchy including open_access, openaire, openaire_data, dnb:dissertations and twenty
  document-type sets. Bibliographic metadata is published under CC0. This is the one surface in this repository
  that is unambiguously KIT''s own engineering.'
humanURL: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/kitopen.php
baseURL: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/
x-verified: '2026-09-01'
tags:
- Library
- Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata
- Open Access
- Research
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/kitopen.php
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
- type: Identify
  url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=Identify
- type: MetadataFormats
  url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=ListMetadataFormats
- type: Sets
  url: https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/?verb=ListSets
- type: Repository
  url: https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology-conformance.yml