Aalto University

aid: aalto
name: Aalto University
description: 'Aalto University is a multidisciplinary public research university in Espoo, Finland, formed in 2010 from the
  merger of three institutions and ranked #113 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer footprint is
  modest and mostly research- or open-data-oriented: an authentication-gated Aalto API Gateway (3scale) exposing course/student
  information system APIs such as the Open Courses (SISU) API, a Linked Open Aalto Data service offering a public SPARQL endpoint,
  and the Aaltodoc institutional repository (DSpace) with public OAI-PMH and REST access. Active open-source development is
  published primarily through the AaltoSciComp GitHub organization.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aalto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- Linked Data
- Finland
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: aalto:api-gateway
  name: Aalto API Gateway
  description: Aalto's 3scale-based API gateway exposing open interfaces about Aalto and its operations, sourced from systems
    such as Oodi and ASIO. Access requires signing in with an Aalto account (and the developer portal typically requires the
    Aalto network or VPN); it is not a fully public, anonymous API.
  humanURL: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/api-gateway-application-programming-interface
  tags:
  - Education
  - API Gateway
  - Courses
  - Students
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/api-gateway-application-programming-interface
  - type: Signup
    url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
- aid: aalto:open-courses-sisu
  name: Open Courses API (SISU)
  description: Course-data API exposed through the Aalto API Gateway, providing course and realization information from the
    SISU student information system. A Swagger/OpenAPI reference is published, but the rendered specification and live calls
    require authentication with an Aalto account; the base path is /api/aalto.
  humanURL: https://3scale.apps.ocp4.aalto.fi/docs/swagger/open_courses_sisu
  tags:
  - Courses
  - SISU
  - Education
  - Students
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://3scale.apps.ocp4.aalto.fi/docs/swagger/open_courses_sisu
  - type: Signup
    url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
- aid: aalto:linked-open-data
  name: Linked Open Aalto Data (SPARQL)
  description: Open data published by Aalto University expressed as Linked Data, offering a public SPARQL query endpoint,
    a Linked Data browser, and downloadable datasets covering courses, publications, research projects, buildings, staff,
    organizational structure, and events. The SPARQL endpoint is hosted on the Linked Data Finland platform (ldf.fi/loa).
  humanURL: https://data.aalto.fi/
  baseURL: http://ldf.fi/loa/sparql
  tags:
  - Open Data
  - Linked Data
  - SPARQL
  - RDF
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://data.aalto.fi/
- aid: aalto:aaltodoc-oai
  name: Aaltodoc Repository (OAI-PMH and REST)
  description: Aaltodoc is Aalto University's DSpace-based institutional repository of theses, articles, conference publications,
    and research materials. It exposes a public, OAI-PMH 2.0 endpoint (OpenAIRE compliant) for metadata harvesting and a DSpace
    REST API at /server/api.
  humanURL: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/
  baseURL: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/oai/request
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.aalto.fi/en/open-science-and-research/aaltodoc-publication-archive
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/server/api
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.aalto.fi/en
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://apiportal.aalto.fi/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/AaltoSciComp
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aalto-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aalto-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aalto-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com