Sorbonne University

HAL Sorbonne Université Open Archive (OAI-PMH)

HAL Sorbonne Université is the institution's open archive of scholarly publications. Its metadata is harvestable through the standards-based OAI-PMH protocol served by the central HAL infrastructure (api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal), which returns a valid Identify response and exposes records dating back to 2002 under a CC0 metadata license. The institutional portal at hal.sorbonne-universite.fr is the public web front end.

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https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai

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https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: sorbonne:hal-oai
name: HAL Sorbonne Université Open Archive (OAI-PMH)
description: HAL Sorbonne Université is the institution's open archive of scholarly publications. Its
  metadata is harvestable through the standards-based OAI-PMH protocol served by the central HAL infrastructure
  (api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal), which returns a valid Identify response and exposes records dating
  back to 2002 under a CC0 metadata license. The institutional portal at hal.sorbonne-universite.fr is
  the public web front end.
humanURL: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/
baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/
tags:
- Open Access
- Open Science
- OAI-PMH
- Repository
- Publications
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
- type: Website
  url: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/