Lund University

Lund University is a public research university in Lund, Sweden, founded in 1666 and ranked #74 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint centers on the Lund University Libraries' research-output and open-metadata services, principally Lund University Publications (LUP), which exposes a JSON Search API, OAI-PMH harvesting, SRU/CQL search, an unAPI discovery service, and RSS feeds. The Lund University Research Portal is an external interface to the LUCRIS research information system built on Elsevier Pure. Administrative, identity (SWAMID/SAML federation), and student-information systems exist but are gated behind institutional affiliation rather than openly self-service.

Lund University publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Publication API. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Sweden, and Research.

The Lund University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

Lund University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 10 more developer resources.

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40.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFree

5 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversitySwedenResearchLibraryOpen DataPublications

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 40.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 17.8 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.5 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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 5

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Lund Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

JSON Schema 2

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 1

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Review

Review

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lund
name: Lund University
description: 'Lund University is a public research university in Lund, Sweden, founded in 1666 and ranked #74 in the QS World
  University Rankings 2025. Its public developer and API footprint centers on the Lund University Libraries'' research-output
  and open-metadata services, principally Lund University Publications (LUP), which exposes a JSON Search API, OAI-PMH harvesting,
  SRU/CQL search, an unAPI discovery service, and RSS feeds. The Lund University Research Portal is an external interface
  to the LUCRIS research information system built on Elsevier Pure. Administrative, identity (SWAMID/SAML federation), and
  student-information systems exist but are gated behind institutional affiliation rather than openly self-service.'
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/lund.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lund/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Sweden
- Research
- Library
- Open Data
- Publications
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: lund:lup-oai
  name: Lund University Publications OAI-PMH
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for fully or partially harvesting Lund University publication metadata
    (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords). No authentication required.
  humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/oai
  tags:
  - Publications
  - OAI-PMH
  - Harvesting
  - Library
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
- aid: lund:lup-sru
  name: Lund University Publications SRU
  description: SRU 1.1 Search/Retrieve via URL service using CQL (Contextual Query Language) for querying the LUP publication
    database. Scan and explain operations are not supported; no authentication required.
  humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/sru
  tags:
  - Publications
  - SRU
  - CQL
  - Search
  - Library
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
- aid: lund:lup-unapi
  name: Lund University Publications unAPI
  description: unAPI 1 discovery service for retrieving alternate metadata formats of LUP records. No authentication required.
  humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  tags:
  - Publications
  - unAPI
  - Discovery
  - Library
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
- aid: lund:research-portal
  name: Lund University Research Portal (LUCRIS / Pure)
  description: Public external interface to the LUCRIS research information system, built on Elsevier Pure, covering researchers,
    organisations, outputs, projects, datasets, and activities. Lund documents that LUCRIS information can be retrieved automatically
    via API or RSS for institutional reporters and web editors; full public Pure API access is not openly self-service.
  humanURL: https://portal.research.lu.se/
  tags:
  - Research
  - Pure
  - LUCRIS
  - Publications
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/research-support/lucris/research-portal
- aid: lund:lund-publication-api
  name: Lund University Publication API
  description: The Publication API from Lund University — 2 operation(s) for publication.
  humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication
  tags:
  - Publication
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lund-publication-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/lund-publication-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/lund-searchresult-schema.json
  - type: x-json-structure
    url: json-structure/lund-publication-structure.json
  - type: x-example
    url: examples/lund-searchpublications-example.json
  - type: x-spectral-rules
    url: rules/lund-rules.yml
  - type: x-vocabulary
    url: vocabulary/lund-vocabulary.yml
  - type: x-json-ld-context
    url: json-ld/lund-context.jsonld
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/lund-agentic-access.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/lund-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lund-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/lunduniversity
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/lund-university/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
- type: Plans
  url: plans/lund-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/lund-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/lund-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com