Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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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: 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