Aarhus University

aid: aarhus
name: Aarhus University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Aarhus University (Aarhus Universitet) is a public research university in Aarhus, Denmark, founded in 1928,
  with roughly 38,000 students across five faculties. It operates no central developer portal, no public API program, and
  no general-purpose institutional API — api.au.dk, data.au.dk, developer.au.dk and opendata.au.dk do not resolve. Its one
  genuinely institution-operated, publicly readable machine-readable surface is the OAI-PMH metadata harvesting service at
  pure.au.dk/ws/oai, which is live and fully functional: it identifies itself as the Aarhus University repository, is administered
  from pure@au.dk, offers five metadata profiles including the Danish national research-database formats, and emits ORCID
  iDs for Aarhus researchers. Everything else in the university''s programmable footprint is a vendor''s product running under
  the institution''s name — the Elsevier Pure research information REST API at pure.au.dk/ws/api (gated, HTTP 401 without
  a key, and an Elsevier contract regardless of the host it is served from), the Semestry MyTimetable service at timetable.au.dk,
  and the ERDA/MiG research data archive at erda.au.dk. The kursuskatalog.au.dk course catalogue and the mitstudie.au.dk student
  self-service environment are web applications with no documented API. Aarhus is a member of WAYF, Denmark''s national identity
  federation, and operates a SAML identity provider scoped to au.dk behind it. Code activity lives in departmental GitHub
  organisations such as cs-au-dk rather than in any central engineering programme.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · one open harvesting endpoint on the institution's own host
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - conformance/aarhus-conformance.yml
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · Open OAI-PMH harvesting, no signup; Pure REST is credentialed
  confidence: high
  source:
  - conformance/aarhus-conformance.yml
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aarhus.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aarhus/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Research
- Research Repository
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Research Computing
- Course Catalog
- Denmark
- Nordic
- Europe
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: aarhus:pure-oai
  name: Aarhus University OAI-PMH Metadata Service
  x-operator: institution
  description: 'Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 service for Aarhus University''s research record.
    Verified live on 2026-08-30: the Identify verb returns repositoryName "Aarhus University", adminEmail pure@au.dk and an
    earliest datestamp of 2005-06-02. Five metadata prefixes are offered — oai_dc, mods, fi-person, ddf-mxd and xmetadiss
    — the last two being the Danish national research database (Forskningsdatabasen) profiles, and the document declares the
    OpenAIRE CERIF 1.2 profile namespace. Records are partitioned into persons:all, publications:all, publications:withFiles
    and a per-year series from 1961 forward, and ListRecords returns real Dublin Core with Aarhus authors'' ORCID iDs inline.
    The repository software beneath is Elsevier Pure, but the harvesting endpoint is served from the university''s own registrable
    domain, administered from an au.dk address, and names Aarhus University as the repository — operating it is an institutional
    act, so this surface is credited to Aarhus.'
  humanURL: https://pure.au.dk/portal/
  baseURL: https://pure.au.dk/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  - Open Access
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pure.au.dk/portal/
  - type: x-conformance
    url: conformance/aarhus-conformance.yml
- aid: aarhus:pure-rest
  name: Elsevier Pure REST API — Aarhus University deployment
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Aarhus University''s deployment of the Elsevier Pure research information system REST API. The data is Aarhus''s
    — its researchers, projects, research outputs and organisational units — and the deployment runs on the university''s
    own host. The CONTRACT is not Aarhus''s: the served OpenAPI declares info.title "Pure API", info.contact.email pure-support@elsevier.com
    and version 5.35.3-4, and the same document is shipped by at least ten other institutions in this catalog. No copy of
    that specification is kept in this repository, because saving it here would credit Aarhus University with Elsevier''s
    engineering — this is the exact misattribution the university pipeline exists to prevent. The endpoint itself is credentialed:
    an unauthenticated request to /ws/api/524.0/persons returns HTTP 401 "Full authentication is required to access this resource".
    The specification is publicly readable at https://pure.au.dk/ws/api/openapi.json for anyone who wants to inspect the product,
    and it belongs in Elsevier''s own profile.'
  humanURL: https://pure.au.dk/portal/
  baseURL: https://pure.au.dk/ws/api
  tags:
  - Research Information
  - CRIS
  - Vendor Platform
  - Tenant Deployment
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://pure.au.dk/portal/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://pure.au.dk/ws/api
- aid: aarhus:course-catalogue
  name: Aarhus University Course Catalogue
  x-operator: institution
  description: kursuskatalog.au.dk is Aarhus University's public course catalogue, built and operated by the university on
    its own domain and served through AU's own CDN and font hosts. It is a web application only. There is no documented API,
    no JSON surface, and no real sitemap — a request for /sitemap.xml returns the application shell with HTTP 200 rather than
    an XML document, which is a soft-404 and is recorded here so no later pass mistakes it for a machine-readable index. Recorded
    as an institution-operated surface with no programmable interface, not as an API.
  humanURL: https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/en
  tags:
  - Course Catalog
  - Registrar
  - Web Only
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/en
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://studerende.au.dk/en/it-support/mitstudieaudk/
- aid: aarhus:timetable
  name: Aarhus University Timetable (MyTimetable)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'timetable.au.dk is Aarhus University''s timetabling service. The host is the university''s own, but the product
    is MyTimetable by Semestry — the served page identifies itself as "Powered by MyTimetable, created by Semestry" — and
    the iCal subscription feeds it offers are a Semestry product feature rather than Aarhus engineering. Recorded as a tenant
    deployment: real institutional service, vendor''s contract.'
  humanURL: https://timetable.au.dk/
  tags:
  - Timetable
  - Course Catalog
  - iCalendar
  - Tenant Deployment
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://timetable.au.dk/
- aid: aarhus:erda
  name: Aarhus University ERDA Research Data Archive
  x-operator: tenant
  description: erda.au.dk is Aarhus University's Electronic Research Data Archive, running on the university's own infrastructure
    with AU and external user sign-in paths and companion hosts at int.erda.au.dk, cert.erda.au.dk and ext.erda.au.dk. The
    platform is the MiG / ERDA software originating at the University of Copenhagen's SCIENCE faculty — the deployment still
    carries the erda-ucph-science skin and credits The MiG Project — so the archive is Aarhus's data on another institution's
    platform. No public API surface was found; the archive is reached through its web interface and standard file-transfer
    protocols behind authentication.
  humanURL: https://erda.au.dk/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Data Archive
  - Tenant Deployment
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://erda.au.dk/
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.au.dk/en/
- type: About
  url: https://www.au.dk/en/about/profile/
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://pure.au.dk/portal/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/en
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://wayf.au.dk/
- type: ResearchComputing
  url: https://genome.au.dk/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://genome.au.dk/docs/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://library.au.dk/en
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://studerende.au.dk/en/gai
- type: AITooling
  url: https://medarbejdere.au.dk/en/administration/it/guides/using-gai-responsibly
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://educate.au.dk/en/teaching-with-technology/chatbots
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://international.au.dk/about/profile/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://international.au.dk/about/profile/cookies-policy/
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: https://au.dk/.well-known/security.txt
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/cs-au-dk
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/aarhus-university/
- type: x-conformance
  url: conformance/aarhus-conformance.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/aarhus-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aarhus-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/aarhus-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/aarhus-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/aarhus-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: covered
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  detail: 'Every surface class the university pipeline hunts was probed on 2026-08-30 and the result is a thin but complete
    and honest profile. Aarhus University operates exactly one public, readable, institution-operated machine-readable API:
    the OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting service at pure.au.dk/ws/oai, which is fully functional across Identify, ListMetadataFormats,
    ListSets and ListRecords and carries ORCID iDs for Aarhus researchers. There is no central developer portal and no open-data
    portal — api.au.dk, data.au.dk, developer.au.dk, open.au.dk, opendata.au.dk and services.au.dk all return NXDOMAIN. The
    course catalogue and student self-service systems are web-only; their /sitemap.xml is a soft-404 returning the application
    shell. Timetabling is Semestry MyTimetable and the research data archive is the University of Copenhagen''s ERDA/MiG platform,
    both deployed on au.dk hosts and both recorded as tenant relationships. Identity federation is real and was confirmed
    in the WAYF national federation aggregate, which carries au.dk as a Shibboleth metadata scope. GenomeDK, the university''s
    HPC facility, is documented across 78 pages but exposes no API. This profile previously carried 37 OpenAPI definitions
    and 128 derived artifacts; all of them were the Elsevier Pure product contract (info.title "Pure API", contact pure-support@elsevier.com,
    version 5.35.3-4) split per tag, and all were removed in this run. Expect the score to fall, because the artifact volume
    it was resting on was never Aarhus University''s.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://pure.au.dk/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://pure.au.dk/ws/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats
    status: 200
  - url: https://pure.au.dk/ws/oai?verb=ListSets
    status: 200
  - url: https://pure.au.dk/ws/api/524.0/persons
    status: 401
  - url: https://pure.au.dk/ws/api/openapi.json
    status: 200
  - url: https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/en
    status: 200
  - url: https://kursuskatalog.au.dk/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://timetable.au.dk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://erda.au.dk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://genome.au.dk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://genome.au.dk/docs/
    status: 200
  - url: https://metadata.wayf.dk/wayf-metadata.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://wayf.au.dk/
    status: 200
  - url: https://au.dk/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://au.dk/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.au.dk/en/
    status: 200
  - url: https://library.au.dk/en
    status: 200
  - url: https://studerende.au.dk/en/gai
    status: 200
  - url: https://medarbejdere.au.dk/en/administration/it/guides/using-gai-responsibly
    status: 200
  - url: https://international.au.dk/about/profile/privacy-policy/
    status: 200
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com