Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

VU Research Portal OAI-PMH

OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Repository, served from the institution's own domain and administered by the VU University Library (adminEmail pure.ub@vu.nl). Verified live 2026-08-30: Identify returns repositoryName "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Repository", earliestDatestamp 2017-02-05, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ and an OpenAIRE CERIF Service description claiming compatibility 1.1.1. ListMetadataFormats advertises oai_dc and oai_cerif_openaire; ListSets advertises seven openaire_cris_* sets plus per-year publication sets back to 1880; a ListRecords harvest of openaire_cris_persons returned 108KB of CERIF records. The repository software underneath is Elsevier Pure, but OAI-PMH is an open protocol on a VU host, so the surface is the institution's even though the product is not. No OpenAPI is held for it because VU publishes none and this pipeline does not generate contracts on an institution's behalf.

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API entry from apis.yml

aid: vrije-universiteit-amsterdam:research-portal-oai
name: VU Research Portal OAI-PMH
x-operator: institution
description: 'OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata harvesting interface for the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Repository,
  served from the institution''s own domain and administered by the VU University Library (adminEmail
  pure.ub@vu.nl). Verified live 2026-08-30: Identify returns repositoryName "Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  Repository", earliestDatestamp 2017-02-05, granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ and an OpenAIRE CERIF Service
  description claiming compatibility 1.1.1. ListMetadataFormats advertises oai_dc and oai_cerif_openaire;
  ListSets advertises seven openaire_cris_* sets plus per-year publication sets back to 1880; a ListRecords
  harvest of openaire_cris_persons returned 108KB of CERIF records. The repository software underneath
  is Elsevier Pure, but OAI-PMH is an open protocol on a VU host, so the surface is the institution''s
  even though the product is not. No OpenAPI is held for it because VU publishes none and this pipeline
  does not generate contracts on an institution''s behalf.'
humanURL: https://research.vu.nl/
baseURL: https://research.vu.nl/ws/oai
tags:
- OAI-PMH
- Research Repository
- Metadata Harvesting
- Open Access
- OpenAIRE
- CERIF
properties:
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/vrije-universiteit-amsterdam-conformance.yml
- type: Documentation
  url: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html