Lund University

Lund University Publications SRU

SRU 1.1 Search/Retrieve via URL service over the LUP research-output database, querying with CQL and returning MODS 3.3 records in the http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/ namespace. Scan and explain are not supported. No authentication required. The working base URL is /sru — the /search/sru path in Lund's documentation returns 404.

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https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: lund:lup-sru
name: Lund University Publications SRU
description: SRU 1.1 Search/Retrieve via URL service over the LUP research-output database, querying with
  CQL and returning MODS 3.3 records in the http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/ namespace. Scan and explain are
  not supported. No authentication required. The working base URL is /sru — the /search/sru path in Lund's
  documentation returns 404.
humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/sru
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Publications
- SRU
- CQL
- Search
- Library
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api