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Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is a public research university in Bavaria, Germany, ranked #224 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. FAU does not operate a single consolidated developer portal, but several of its central services expose public, machine-readable interfaces. The University Library's OPEN FAU institutional repository runs on DSpace 7.4 and publishes a browsable REST/HAL API and an OAI-PMH metadata interface, while the FAU CRIS research information system (built on Clarivate Converis) exposes a public web-service path that is access-restricted on FAU's instance. Central IT (RRZE) and the Competence Center for Research Data and Information (CDI) maintain active public GitHub organizations and a self-hosted GitLab.

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg’s developer surface includes GitHub presence, authentication, and 10 more developer resources.

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21.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
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3 APIs
EducationHigher EducationUniversityResearchOpen AccessRepositoryLibraryGermany

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 21.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 3.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.5 / 10
Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

OPEN FAU DSpace REST API

OPEN FAU is the institutional open-access publication repository of FAU, built on DSpace 7.4. Its REST/HAL API exposes communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery/sea...

OPEN FAU OAI-PMH Interface

OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the OPEN FAU DSpace repository, supporting standard verbs (Identify, ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord) for bulk metadata harvesting of ...

FAU CRIS Converis Public Web Service

FAU CRIS is the university's research information system, built on Clarivate Converis, holding 146,000+ publications and 5,200+ research projects and syndicating data to 1,000+ ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Context

15 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub
 GitHub
GitHub
 SourceCode
SourceCode

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review
Review

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg
name: Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
description: 'Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is a public research university in Bavaria, Germany,
  ranked #224 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. FAU does not operate a single consolidated developer portal, but several
  of its central services expose public, machine-readable interfaces. The University Library''s OPEN FAU institutional repository
  runs on DSpace 7.4 and publishes a browsable REST/HAL API and an OAI-PMH metadata interface, while the FAU CRIS research
  information system (built on Clarivate Converis) exposes a public web-service path that is access-restricted on FAU''s instance.
  Central IT (RRZE) and the Competence Center for Research Data and Information (CDI) maintain active public GitHub organizations
  and a self-hosted GitLab.'
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Repository
- Library
- Germany
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:open-fau-rest
  name: OPEN FAU DSpace REST API
  description: OPEN FAU is the institutional open-access publication repository of FAU, built on DSpace 7.4. Its REST/HAL
    API exposes communities, collections, items, bitstreams, discovery/search and browse endpoints for harvesting and integrating
    repository content. Read access to public content is open; submission and management endpoints require authentication.
  humanURL: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
  baseURL: https://open.fau.de/server/api
  tags:
  - Repository
  - Open Access
  - DSpace
  - Research
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
- aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:open-fau-oai
  name: OPEN FAU OAI-PMH Interface
  description: OAI-PMH metadata harvesting interface for the OPEN FAU DSpace repository, supporting standard verbs (Identify,
    ListRecords, ListSets, GetRecord) for bulk metadata harvesting of FAU open-access publications. The legacy OPUS FAU OAI
    endpoint now redirects to OPEN FAU.
  humanURL: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
  baseURL: https://open.fau.de/server/oai/request
  tags:
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  - Open Access
  - Repository
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ub.fau.de/en/research/open-fau/
- aid: friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg:cris-converis-ws
  name: FAU CRIS Converis Public Web Service
  description: FAU CRIS is the university's research information system, built on Clarivate Converis, holding 146,000+ publications
    and 5,200+ research projects and syndicating data to 1,000+ websites. Converis provides public web-service endpoints under
    /converis/ws/public for reading info objects; on FAU's instance these paths respond but return HTTP 403 (access-restricted),
    so programmatic access is gated rather than openly documented.
  humanURL: https://cris.fau.de/
  tags:
  - Research
  - CRIS
  - Converis
  - Web Service
  - Restricted
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.fau.eu/research/services-for-researchers/research-information-system/
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fau.eu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/RRZE-Webteam
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/FAU-CDI
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://gitlab.rrze.fau.de/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/fau-erlangen-n%C3%BCrnberg/
- type: Authentication
  url: https://www.rrze.fau.de/2009/10/zentraler-anmeldedienst-fur-web-anwendungen-mein-campus-stud-on-und-uniportal/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com