# ULS E-Journal Publishing — OAI-PMH 2.0 providers

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/uls-ejournal-oai/  
**Provider:** University of Pittsburgh — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/  
**Base URL:** https://anthro-age.pitt.edu/ojs/anthro-age/oai  
**Documentation:** https://www.library.pitt.edu/publishing-open-access

ULS E-Journal Publishing — OAI-PMH 2.0 providers is one of 6 APIs that [University of Pittsburgh](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Scholarly Publishing, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Library, and Metadata Harvesting. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The University Library System publishes dozens of open-access journals on PKP Open Journal Systems that ULS self-hosts, each with a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 provider on a pitt.edu host. anthro-age.pitt.edu resolves through ojs-prod-01-VIP.library.pitt.edu to 136.142.156.212 — ULS's own machine, named for the service it runs. Identify reports protocolVersion 2.0 and adminEmail anthro-age@mail.pitt.edu; ListMetadataFormats advertises oai_dc, marcxml, oai_marc and rfc1807; ListRecords returns real records. The same pattern answers at jwsr.pitt.edu, jmla.pitt.edu, cinej.pitt.edu and at least seven further journal hosts. ULS is not merely a consumer of this software: the ulsdevteam GitHub organization holds 299 public repositories, including OJS/PKP plugins ULS itself wrote. The OJS REST API alongside each provider is closed to the public (HTTP 403 api.403.unauthorized); the OAI-PMH surface is open. Discovered 2026-08-30 — this surface was entirely absent from the June 2026 profile.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://www.library.pitt.edu/publishing-open-access
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pittsburgh/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-pittsburgh-uls-oai-pmh-identify.xml
- **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-pittsburgh/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-pittsburgh-education-standards-conformance.yml

## Other University of Pittsburgh APIs (5)

- [Project Tycho API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/project-tycho/)
- [Western Pennsylvania Regional Data Center (WPRDC) CKAN API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/wprdc-ckan/)
- [Pitt Passport (Shibboleth SAML 2.0 Identity Provider)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/pitt-passport-idp/)
- [D-Scholarship@Pitt Institutional Repository (Hyku Commons) — tenant](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/d-scholarship-oai/)
- [PittAPI (Pitt Computer Science Club) — student-built](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/pittapi/)

## Tags

Scholarly Publishing, OAI-PMH, Open Access, Library, Metadata Harvesting

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-pittsburgh/uls-ejournal-oai/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/university-of-pittsburgh/.