# KITopen OAI-PMH Interface

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/kitopen-oai/  
**Provider:** Karlsruhe Institute of Technology — https://apis.io/providers/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/  
**Base URL:** https://dbkit.bibliothek.kit.edu/oai/  
**Documentation:** https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/kitopen.php

KITopen OAI-PMH Interface is one of 4 APIs that [Karlsruhe Institute of Technology](https://apis.io/providers/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

KITopen is KIT's central open-access institutional repository for bibliographic data, full texts, images, research data, and AV media of KIT scientists. It is built on the KIT Library dbkit framework and exposes an OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting interface (repository name "KITopen").

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://www.bibliothek.kit.edu/english/dbkit.php
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Karlsruhe Institute of Technology APIs (3)

- [dbkit API](https://apis.io/apis/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/dbkit/)
- [RADAR / RADAR4KIT Archive API](https://apis.io/apis/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/radar4kit/)
- [KIT Shibboleth Identity Provider (SCC)](https://apis.io/apis/karlsruhe-institute-of-technology/shibboleth-idp/)

## Tags

Library, Repository, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Open Access, Research

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