University of Bologna

AlmaDL Journals OAI-PMH

Site-wide OAI-PMH 2.0 provider over AlmaDL Journals, the university's open-access journal publishing platform, on its own host journals.unibo.it (atrproxy4.unibo.it, 137.204.24.209). Verified live 2026-09-01 — https://journals.unibo.it/index.php/index/oai?verb=Identify returns 200 text/xml with repositoryName "AlmaDL Journals", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail ojs@unibo.it, earliestDatestamp 2007-11-26T14:59:40Z; verb=ListSets returns 100 sets, one per journal or journal section; verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc returns real records. The platform is Open Journal Systems from the Public Knowledge Project, so the API contract is PKP's and none is saved here. The OJS REST API v1 exists on the same host and is closed to anonymous callers — /index.php/ijhb/api/v1/issues returns 403 application/json {"error":"api.403.unauthorized"} and /api/v1/contexts returns 500 — recorded in authentication/ rather than counted as callable.

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Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
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Authentication
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bologna/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-bologna-authentication.yml

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Conformance
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-bologna/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-bologna-domain-standards.yml

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: university-of-bologna:almadl-journals-oai-pmh
name: AlmaDL Journals OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: Site-wide OAI-PMH 2.0 provider over AlmaDL Journals, the university's open-access journal
  publishing platform, on its own host journals.unibo.it (atrproxy4.unibo.it, 137.204.24.209). Verified
  live 2026-09-01 — https://journals.unibo.it/index.php/index/oai?verb=Identify returns 200 text/xml with
  repositoryName "AlmaDL Journals", protocolVersion 2.0, adminEmail ojs@unibo.it, earliestDatestamp 2007-11-26T14:59:40Z;
  verb=ListSets returns 100 sets, one per journal or journal section; verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc
  returns real records. The platform is Open Journal Systems from the Public Knowledge Project, so the
  API contract is PKP's and none is saved here. The OJS REST API v1 exists on the same host and is closed
  to anonymous callers — /index.php/ijhb/api/v1/issues returns 403 application/json {"error":"api.403.unauthorized"}
  and /api/v1/contexts returns 500 — recorded in authentication/ rather than counted as callable.
humanURL: https://journals.unibo.it/
baseURL: https://journals.unibo.it/index.php/index/oai
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Open Access
- Scholarly Publishing
- OJS
- Journals
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-bologna-domain-standards.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/university-of-bologna-authentication.yml