# HAL Sorbonne Université Open Archive (OAI-PMH)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/sorbonne/hal-oai/  
**Provider:** Sorbonne University — https://apis.io/providers/sorbonne/  
**Base URL:** https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/  
**Documentation:** https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/

HAL Sorbonne Université Open Archive (OAI-PMH) is one of 3 APIs that [Sorbonne University](https://apis.io/providers/sorbonne/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Open Access, Open Science, OAI-PMH, Repository, and Publications. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

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.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
- **Website** — https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sorbonne/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Sorbonne University APIs (2)

- [HAL Search API](https://apis.io/apis/sorbonne/hal-search/)
- [Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse - Sorbonne Université Collection](https://apis.io/apis/sorbonne/dataverse/)

## Tags

Open Access, Open Science, OAI-PMH, Repository, Publications, Metadata

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/sorbonne/hal-oai/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/sorbonne/.