University of Bern

BORIS Portal OAI-PMH Endpoint

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for BORIS Portal, the University of Bern's institutional repository and current research information system. Runs on a Bern-operated host under the university's own registrable domain. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "BORIS Portal", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail borisportal@unibe.ch, earliestDatestamp 2026-08-10T07:16:15Z, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord transient; verb=ListMetadataFormats also answers. This path is the ONE exception to the access restriction currently applied to the whole boris-portal.unibe.ch host. The OAI-PMH protocol is OAI's, not Bern's — the deployment and the metadata are Bern's.

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Documentation
https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/open_science/boris_portal/index_eng.html

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BaseURL
https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/oai/request
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bern/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-bern:boris-oai
name: BORIS Portal OAI-PMH Endpoint
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for BORIS Portal, the University of Bern''s institutional
  repository and current research information system. Runs on a Bern-operated host under the university''s
  own registrable domain. Verified live 2026-09-01: verb=Identify returns repositoryName "BORIS Portal",
  protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail borisportal@unibe.ch, earliestDatestamp 2026-08-10T07:16:15Z, granularity
  YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ, deletedRecord transient; verb=ListMetadataFormats also answers. This path is the
  ONE exception to the access restriction currently applied to the whole boris-portal.unibe.ch host. The
  OAI-PMH protocol is OAI''s, not Bern''s — the deployment and the metadata are Bern''s.'
humanURL: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/open_science/boris_portal/index_eng.html
baseURL: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/oai/request
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Harvesting
- Metadata
- Repository
- Open Access
- Research
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/open_science/boris_portal/index_eng.html
- type: BaseURL
  url: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/oai/request