Sorbonne University

HAL Search API — SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE collection

The HAL Solr search API scoped to Sorbonne University's collection at https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE/, which returns 326,851 records (HTTP 200, application/json) with faceting and field selection over the university's affiliated publications; 211,514 of those records carry ORCID identifiers in authORCIDIdExt_s. Tenant, for the same reason as the OAI endpoint: the collection is Sorbonne's, the Solr index and the API contract are CCSD's. The previous profile pointed at the generic /search/ base URL shared by every French institution.

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

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: sorbonne:hal-search
name: HAL Search API — SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE collection
x-operator: tenant
description: 'The HAL Solr search API scoped to Sorbonne University''s collection at https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE/,
  which returns 326,851 records (HTTP 200, application/json) with faceting and field selection over the
  university''s affiliated publications; 211,514 of those records carry ORCID identifiers in authORCIDIdExt_s.

  Tenant, for the same reason as the OAI endpoint: the collection is Sorbonne''s, the Solr index and the
  API contract are CCSD''s. The previous profile pointed at the generic /search/ base URL shared by every
  French institution.'
humanURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/search
baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/SORBONNE-UNIVERSITE/
tags:
- Search
- Open Access
- Publications
- Metadata
- ORCID
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/search