National University of Colombia

SINAB library catalog (self-hosted Ex Libris Aleph)

catalogo.unal.edu.co runs Ex Libris Aleph on UNAL's own infrastructure (168.176.5.96), not on an Ex Libris cloud tenancy — the host verdict is institution, but the product is a vendor's and no Aleph contract is saved. The Aleph X-Services gateway is reachable and returns well-formed XML, but every anonymous query fails with "SRU gate configuration file is missing", so there is no usable public search API. Discovery for SINAB lives at sinab.unal.edu.co, which now serves a Ghost site ("Manglar"). Probed 2026-09-01.

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https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: national-university-of-colombia:library-catalog-aleph
name: SINAB library catalog (self-hosted Ex Libris Aleph)
x-operator: institution
description: catalogo.unal.edu.co runs Ex Libris Aleph on UNAL's own infrastructure (168.176.5.96), not
  on an Ex Libris cloud tenancy — the host verdict is institution, but the product is a vendor's and no
  Aleph contract is saved. The Aleph X-Services gateway is reachable and returns well-formed XML, but
  every anonymous query fails with "SRU gate configuration file is missing", so there is no usable public
  search API. Discovery for SINAB lives at sinab.unal.edu.co, which now serves a Ghost site ("Manglar").
  Probed 2026-09-01.
humanURL: https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/
baseURL: https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/X
tags:
- Library
- Aleph
- Ex Libris
- Discovery
properties:
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://catalogo.unal.edu.co/