University of Bern

BORIS Portal DSpace REST API (public access suspended)

BORIS Portal runs DSpace with the DSpace-CRIS extension and, by design, exposes a HAL/JSON REST API at /server/api covering communities, collections, items, bitstreams and CRIS research entities. It is NOT publicly callable. As of 2026-09-01 every anonymous request to boris-portal.unibe.ch — the site root, /server/api and /server/api/core/communities alike — returns HTTP 200 carrying a 2,920-byte "Temporary Access Restriction" HTML page: "Due to an exceptionally high volume of automated traffic, public access to boris-portal has been temporarily suspended... Access is currently granted exclusively to the following networks: University of Bern Network, Inselspital Network, University VPN Connections." An Accept: application/json request gets the same HTML. The previous profile recorded this surface as "confirmed live returning HTTP 200" — that was a soft-200 false credit and is corrected here. The REST contract itself is DSpace's, not Bern-authored; no spec is saved to this repo.

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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/api

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-bern:boris-rest
name: BORIS Portal DSpace REST API (public access suspended)
x-operator: institution
description: 'BORIS Portal runs DSpace with the DSpace-CRIS extension and, by design, exposes a HAL/JSON
  REST API at /server/api covering communities, collections, items, bitstreams and CRIS research entities.
  It is NOT publicly callable. As of 2026-09-01 every anonymous request to boris-portal.unibe.ch — the
  site root, /server/api and /server/api/core/communities alike — returns HTTP 200 carrying a 2,920-byte
  "Temporary Access Restriction" HTML page: "Due to an exceptionally high volume of automated traffic,
  public access to boris-portal has been temporarily suspended... Access is currently granted exclusively
  to the following networks: University of Bern Network, Inselspital Network, University VPN Connections."
  An Accept: application/json request gets the same HTML. The previous profile recorded this surface as
  "confirmed live returning HTTP 200" — that was a soft-200 false credit and is corrected here. The REST
  contract itself is DSpace''s, not Bern-authored; no spec is saved to this repo.'
humanURL: https://www.ub.unibe.ch/services/open_science/boris_portal/index_eng.html
baseURL: https://boris-portal.unibe.ch/server/api
tags:
- DSpace
- Repository
- REST
- Research
- Access Restricted
- CRIS
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/api