TU Dresden

Qucosa TU Dresden OAI-PMH (Institutional Document Server)

The OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the TU Dresden instance of Qucosa, the Saxon document and publication server used for dissertations, theses and open-access publications. Identify returns protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2010-06-09, deletedRecord persistent, deflate compression and an eprints description block. A real institutional fact and one of the few programmable surfaces the university has in this class — recorded as a tenancy rather than deleted, because the relationship is genuine even though the engineering is not TU Dresden's.

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Documentation
https://tud.qucosa.de/oai/?verb=Identify

Other Resources

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Website
https://tud.qucosa.de/
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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tu-dresden/refs/heads/main/conformance/tu-dresden-education-standards.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tu-dresden:qucosa-oai
name: Qucosa TU Dresden OAI-PMH (Institutional Document Server)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: 'tud.qucosa.de is a TU-Dresden-specific view on Qucosa, the Saxon document server
  operated by SLUB Dresden. The protocol response gives the operator away: the Identify envelope''s request
  element names the backend http://sdvcmr-prod-oai01.slub-dresden.de:8080/oai/, repositoryName is "Qucosa"
  rather than anything TU Dresden, baseURL is http://www.qucosa.de/oai, adminEmail is qucosa-it@slub-dresden.de
  and repositoryIdentifier is qucosa.de. DataCite registers the matching client as tbyu.ozzulw, "Qucosa
  TU Dresden: Institutionelles Repositorium der Technischen Universität Dresden", under provider TBYU
  — Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden. The theses and open-access
  publications are TU Dresden''s; the server, the software and the OAI implementation are SLUB''s.'
description: The OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the TU Dresden instance of Qucosa, the Saxon document
  and publication server used for dissertations, theses and open-access publications. Identify returns
  protocolVersion 2.0, earliestDatestamp 2010-06-09, deletedRecord persistent, deflate compression and
  an eprints description block. A real institutional fact and one of the few programmable surfaces the
  university has in this class — recorded as a tenancy rather than deleted, because the relationship is
  genuine even though the engineering is not TU Dresden's.
humanURL: https://tud.qucosa.de/
baseURL: https://tud.qucosa.de/oai/
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Repository
- Open Access
- Publications
- Theses
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://tud.qucosa.de/oai/?verb=Identify
- type: Website
  url: https://tud.qucosa.de/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tu-dresden-education-standards.yml