# DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ulb/difusion-oai/  
**Provider:** Université libre de Bruxelles — https://apis.io/providers/ulb/  
**Documentation:** https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion/terms-of-use

DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Service is one of 3 APIs that [Université libre de Bruxelles](https://apis.io/providers/ulb/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Research, Open Access, OAI-PMH, and Metadata Harvesting. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

ULB's DI-fusion institutional repository documents an OAI-PMH harvesting service allowing third parties to harvest metadata for non-profit purposes (provided the OAI identifier or source link is indicated). DI-fusion is registered in OpenDOAR, ROAR and Sherpa as an OAI-PMH compliant repository. The repository runs on VuFind; specific OAI base URLs were not returning a stable public response at review time.

## Machine-readable artifacts (1)

- **Documentation** — https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE

## Other Université libre de Bruxelles APIs (2)

- [DI-fusion Scholar Export API](https://apis.io/apis/ulb/difusion-scholar/)
- [DI-fusion Group Export API](https://apis.io/apis/ulb/difusion-group/)

## Tags

Research, Open Access, OAI-PMH, Metadata Harvesting

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