Université de Montréal

PAPYRUS OAI-PMH Endpoint (institutional repository)

OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for PAPYRUS, Université de Montréal's institutional repository of open-access theses, dissertations and scholarly output. Identify returns repositoryName "PAPYRUS - Dépôt institutionnel de l'Université de Montréal". Two contexts are served: the default at /server/oai/request advertises 18 metadata prefixes including oai_dc, qdc, mods, marc21, dim, mets, ore and the ETD-MS family, and a second at /server/oai/openaire4 is restricted to oai_openaire against the OpenAIRE repo-lit 4.0 schema. Anonymous, no key.

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Documentation
https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/universite-de-montreal/refs/heads/main/conformance/universite-de-montreal-conformance.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: universite-de-montreal:papyrus-oai
name: PAPYRUS OAI-PMH Endpoint (institutional repository)
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: umontreal.scholaris.ca is an institution-specific subdomain of Scholaris, the CRKN-hosted
  national DSpace service. papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca 301s to it. The repository content, sets and Identify
  response are UdeM's; the OAI-PMH implementation is DSpace's. No DSpace or Scholaris contract is saved
  under this institution's slug.
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for PAPYRUS, Université de Montréal''s institutional repository
  of open-access theses, dissertations and scholarly output. Identify returns repositoryName "PAPYRUS
  - Dépôt institutionnel de l''Université de Montréal". Two contexts are served: the default at /server/oai/request
  advertises 18 metadata prefixes including oai_dc, qdc, mods, marc21, dim, mets, ore and the ETD-MS family,
  and a second at /server/oai/openaire4 is restricted to oai_openaire against the OpenAIRE repo-lit 4.0
  schema. Anonymous, no key.'
humanURL: https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/
baseURL: https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/server/oai/request
tags:
- Institutional Repository
- OAI-PMH
- Metadata Harvesting
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Theses
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://umontreal.scholaris.ca/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/universite-de-montreal-conformance.yml