Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt Institutional Repository (VUIR)

Self-hosted DSpace 9.1 institutional repository on Vanderbilt's own domain and infrastructure. The HAL REST API root at irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api advertises 80 link relations and reports dspaceName "Vanderbilt Institutional Repository"; anonymous read is open. The deployment, the content, the handle prefix 1803 and the administrative contact are all Vanderbilt's. The DSpace product contract itself is generic to every DSpace deployment and is deliberately NOT saved here — it belongs to the DSpace project, not to Vanderbilt.

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APIReference
https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api

Other Resources

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Website
https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/
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SourceCode
https://github.com/HeardLibrary/vu-ir

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API entry from apis.yml

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: vanderbilt:institutional-repository
name: Vanderbilt Institutional Repository (VUIR)
description: Self-hosted DSpace 9.1 institutional repository on Vanderbilt's own domain and infrastructure.
  The HAL REST API root at irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api advertises 80 link relations and reports
  dspaceName "Vanderbilt Institutional Repository"; anonymous read is open. The deployment, the content,
  the handle prefix 1803 and the administrative contact are all Vanderbilt's. The DSpace product contract
  itself is generic to every DSpace deployment and is deliberately NOT saved here — it belongs to the
  DSpace project, not to Vanderbilt.
x-operator: institution
humanURL: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/
baseURL: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api
tags:
- Institutional Repository
- Research Data
- DSpace
- Open Access
- Scholarly Communication
properties:
- type: Website
  url: https://ir.vanderbilt.edu/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://irbe.library.vanderbilt.edu/server/api
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/HeardLibrary/vu-ir