National University of Colombia

National University of Colombia Portal de Revistas UN OAI-PMH API

A SECOND institution-operated OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint, found in this run and not previously catalogued: the Portal de Revistas UN, UNAL's own journal publishing platform on revistas.unal.edu.co, running Open Journal Systems 3.4.0.10. repositoryName "Portal de Revistas UN", repositoryIdentifier ojs.unal.edu.co, adminEmail digital@unal.edu.co, four metadata prefixes (oai_dc, marcxml, oai_marc, rfc1807) and at least 100 sets — one per journal plus journal:section subsets. The OJS REST API at /index.php/index/api/v1/contexts returns 403 to anonymous callers and is deliberately not documented. Verified live 2026-09-01.

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GET /oai OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
x-method: generated
x-source-url: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/index/oai?verb=Identify
x-generated: '2026-09-01'
x-operator: institution
info:
  title: National University of Colombia - Portal de Revistas UN OAI-PMH API
  description: 'Machine-readable description of the OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface exposed
    by the Portal de Revistas UN (revistas.unal.edu.co), the Universidad Nacional de Colombia journal
    publishing platform, running Open Journal Systems 3.4.0.10 on the university''s own host. Written
    from live, credential-free probes on 2026-09-01: Identify, ListMetadataFormats and ListSets all returned
    200 with well-formed OAI-PMH XML. The OJS REST API at /index.php/index/api/v1/contexts returns 403
    to anonymous callers and is deliberately NOT documented here. The software is PKP''s; the deployment,
    the host, the content and the sets are the university''s.'
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Portal de Revistas UN
    email: digital@unal.edu.co
    url: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/
  license:
    name: Open Journal Systems (GPL-3.0) software; content under individual journal licenses
    url: https://github.com/pkp/ojs/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/index
  description: Open Journal Systems 3.4.0.10 site-wide context. Confirmed live 2026-09-01 via ?verb=Identify
    -> repositoryName "Portal de Revistas UN", repositoryIdentifier ojs.unal.edu.co, adminEmail digital@unal.edu.co.
tags:
- name: OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the university journal portal.
paths:
  /oai:
    get:
      tags:
      - OAI-PMH
      summary: OAI-PMH 2.0 request endpoint
      description: OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol endpoint for the Portal de Revistas UN. The verb parameter selects
        the operation. Returns XML conforming to the OAI-PMH schema. Confirmed live metadata prefixes
        are oai_dc, marcxml, oai_marc and rfc1807. Sets are one per journal, with journal:section subsets
        (e.g. acta_agronomica, acta_agronomica:AGRPR); at least 100 sets are served in the first ListSets
        page. deletedRecord is persistent, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
      operationId: oaiRequest
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: The OAI-PMH protocol verb.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        description: Metadata format prefix (required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords, GetRecord).
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - oai_dc
          - marcxml
          - oai_marc
          - rfc1807
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        description: OAI identifier of a record (required for GetRecord), e.g. oai:ojs.unal.edu.co:article/1.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: set
        in: query
        description: setSpec to restrict harvesting to one journal or journal section, e.g. acta_agronomica
          or acta_agronomica:AGRPR.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: from
        in: query
        description: Lower bound UTC datestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ).
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: until
        in: query
        description: Upper bound UTC datestamp (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ).
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        description: Token returned by a previous incomplete list response.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OAI-PMH XML response. Protocol-level failures (badVerb, badArgument, cannotDisseminateFormat,
            idDoesNotExist, noRecordsMatch, noSetHierarchy, badResumptionToken) are returned inside an
            <error> element with HTTP 200, per the OAI-PMH specification.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                description: XML document conforming to http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/