# Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/friedrich-alexander-universitat-erlangen-nurnberg/  
**Website:** https://www.fau.eu/  
**APIs profiled:** 3

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.

## Kin Score — 23.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 23.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 42.6 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 11.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free — onboarding: unknown, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (3)

- **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+ ...

## Security (2)

- **Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Friedrich Alexander Universitat Erlangen Nurnberg Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Research, Open Access, Repository, Library, Germany

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