University of Zurich

ZORA Repository OAI-PMH

The Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) is UZH's institutional repository for the peer-reviewed research output of the university. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 interface serves metadata for harvesting with no authentication and no signup, disseminating mods, oai_dc, oai_datacite, marc and akaber. ZORA migrated from EPrints to DSpace in October 2025 and the legacy /cgi/oai2 and /oai/request base URLs are dead; the live base URL is /server/oai/request. A second OAI-PMH context for OpenAIRE is served at /server/oai/openaire and the Identify response embeds an OpenAIRE CERIF 1.1 Service compatibility declaration. Earliest datestamp is 2008-02-11.

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https://www.zora.uzh.ch/

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: university-of-zurich:zora-oai
name: ZORA Repository OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: Host www.zora.uzh.ch is under UZH's own registrable domain, and the Identify response
  names adminEmail martin.braendle@uzh.ch and repositoryIdentifier www.zora.uzh.ch. UZH's Central IT runs
  the service. The protocol is OAI-PMH 2.0 and the software is DSpace 8.0 — the contract is the community's,
  the deployment is UZH's.
description: The Zurich Open Repository and Archive (ZORA) is UZH's institutional repository for the peer-reviewed
  research output of the university. Its OAI-PMH 2.0 interface serves metadata for harvesting with no
  authentication and no signup, disseminating mods, oai_dc, oai_datacite, marc and akaber. ZORA migrated
  from EPrints to DSpace in October 2025 and the legacy /cgi/oai2 and /oai/request base URLs are dead;
  the live base URL is /server/oai/request. A second OAI-PMH context for OpenAIRE is served at /server/oai/openaire
  and the Identify response embeds an OpenAIRE CERIF 1.1 Service compatibility declaration. Earliest datestamp
  is 2008-02-11.
humanURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
baseURL: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/server/oai/request
tags:
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- DSpace
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/university-of-zurich-conformance.yml