Lund University is a public research university in Lund, Sweden, founded in 1666, with roughly 46,000 students across nine faculties and the MAX IV and ESS research infrastructures on its doorstep. Its programmable footprint is narrow, real, and almost entirely library-operated: Lund University Libraries run two self-hosted publication repositories on the university's own host — Lund University Publications (LUP) for research output and LUP Student Papers for theses and degree projects — and each exposes the same open, keyless stack of a JSON(P) search API, an OAI-PMH 2.0 repository, an SRU 1.1/CQL search service, a unAPI 1 discovery service, RSS feeds and a bulk bibliographic export. Lund also operates its own Shibboleth Identity Provider, registered in the Swedish national federation SWAMID and interfederated through eduGAIN, which is a genuinely institution-operated machine-readable surface. Outside those, there is no central developer portal, no self-service API key, no open data portal at data.lu.se, and no public JSON endpoint behind the course finder — the education search at lunduniversity.lu.se is server-rendered with nothing machine-readable underneath. The research portal at portal.research.lu.se is the LUCRIS research information system running on Elsevier Pure: the data is Lund's, the contract is Elsevier's, and its web service refuses anonymous callers. Library discovery (LUBcat, LUBsearch) and the timetable (TimeEdit) are likewise vendor platforms carrying Lund's name.
Lund University publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: Publications Search API and LUP Student Papers Search API. Tagged areas include University, Higher Education, Education, Sweden, and Europe.
The Lund University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.
Lund University’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, GitHub presence, authentication, and 21 more developer resources.
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Keyless REST/JSON(P) search over the Lund University Publications (LUP) research-output database, operated by Lund University Libraries on Lund's own host. Supports CQL-style qu...
SRU 1.1 Search/Retrieve via URL service over the LUP research-output database, querying with CQL and returning MODS 3.3 records in the http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/ namespace. Sc...
unAPI 1 discovery service returning the alternate metadata formats available for LUP records, which is how reference managers such as Zotero autodiscover Lund records. No authen...
Keyless REST/JSON(P) search over LUP Student Papers, a second Lund University Libraries repository holding student theses and degree projects, with its own record model — course...
SRU 1.1 / CQL search service over the LUP Student Papers repository, returning MODS 3.3 records. No authentication required. Base URL is /student-papers/sru.
Lund University's own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Identity Provider, serving machine-readable federation metadata at its entityID. The EntityDescriptor declares an IDPSSODescriptor, t...
Lund's tenant deployment of Elsevier Pure, branded LUCRIS, covering researchers, organisations, outputs, projects, datasets and activities at portal.research.lu.se. The data and...
aid: lund
name: Lund University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Lund University is a public research university in Lund, Sweden, founded in 1666, with roughly 46,000 students
across nine faculties and the MAX IV and ESS research infrastructures on its doorstep. Its programmable footprint is narrow,
real, and almost entirely library-operated: Lund University Libraries run two self-hosted publication repositories on the
university''s own host — Lund University Publications (LUP) for research output and LUP Student Papers for theses and degree
projects — and each exposes the same open, keyless stack of a JSON(P) search API, an OAI-PMH 2.0 repository, an SRU 1.1/CQL
search service, a unAPI 1 discovery service, RSS feeds and a bulk bibliographic export. Lund also operates its own Shibboleth
Identity Provider, registered in the Swedish national federation SWAMID and interfederated through eduGAIN, which is a genuinely
institution-operated machine-readable surface. Outside those, there is no central developer portal, no self-service API
key, no open data portal at data.lu.se, and no public JSON endpoint behind the course finder — the education search at lunduniversity.lu.se
is server-rendered with nothing machine-readable underneath. The research portal at portal.research.lu.se is the LUCRIS
research information system running on Elsevier Pure: the data is Lund''s, the contract is Elsevier''s, and its web service
refuses anonymous callers. Library discovery (LUBcat, LUBsearch) and the timetable (TimeEdit) are likewise vendor platforms
carrying Lund''s name.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- probe
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
accessModel:
pricing: free
onboarding: none
trial: false
try_now: true
public: true
label: Free · no key required
confidence: high
source:
- probe
generated: '2026-08-30'
method: probed
position: Consuming
access: Public
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:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Sweden
- Europe
- Research
- Research Repository
- Publications
- Library
- Open Metadata
- Identity Federation
- OAI-PMH
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: lund:lund-publication-api
name: Lund University Publications Search API
description: Keyless REST/JSON(P) search over the Lund University Publications (LUP) research-output database, operated
by Lund University Libraries on Lund's own host. Supports CQL-style queries, paging and sorting, plus per-record and bulk
bibliographic export in BibTeX, RIS, EndNote, CSV and Excel. Author records carry ORCID iDs and DOIs. Note that the JSON
Schema Lund publishes at /search/schema/publication.json describes the upstream repository record model — it still carries
UGent classification codes and VABB fields — and not the shape the live search endpoint returns; the OpenAPI below models
both, with PublicationHit derived from observed live responses.
humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Publications
- Research
- Search
- Library
- Open Metadata
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
- aid: lund:lup-oai
name: Lund University Publications OAI-PMH
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for the LUP research-output repository. Identify confirms repositoryName
"Lund University Publications", repositoryIdentifier lup.lub.lu.se and adminEmail publicera@lub.lu.se; ListMetadataFormats
advertises oai_dc and MODS 3.3. No authentication required. Note the working base URL is /oai — the /search/oai path given
in Lund's own documentation returns 404.
humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/oai
x-operator: institution
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 over the LUP research-output database, querying with CQL and returning
MODS 3.3 records in the http://www.loc.gov/zing/srw/ namespace. Scan and explain are not supported. No authentication
required. The working base URL is /sru — the /search/sru path in Lund's documentation returns 404.
humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/sru
x-operator: institution
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 returning the alternate metadata formats available for LUP records, which is how
reference managers such as Zotero autodiscover Lund records. No authentication required. The base URL is /search/unapi;
/unapi returns 404.
humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/unapi
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Publications
- unAPI
- Discovery
- Library
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
- aid: lund:lup-student-papers
name: LUP Student Papers Search API
description: Keyless REST/JSON(P) search over LUP Student Papers, a second Lund University Libraries repository holding
student theses and degree projects, with its own record model — courseCode, courseTerm, studentPaperType, supervisor and
reviewer. Search metadata is public; individual full texts may be restricted to Lund accounts via file.accessLevel, and
records carry student account identifiers, so payloads are personal data.
humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/doc/api
baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Student Papers
- Theses
- Search
- Library
- Open Metadata
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/lund-student-papers-api-openapi.yml
- type: Documentation
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/doc/api
- aid: lund:lup-student-papers-oai
name: LUP Student Papers OAI-PMH
description: OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting endpoint for the LUP Student Papers repository. Identify confirms repositoryName "Lund
University Publications - Student Papers" and repositoryIdentifier lup-student-papers.lub.lu.se. A distinct repository
from the research-output instance, with its own identifier namespace. No authentication required.
humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/doc/api
baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/oai
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Student Papers
- OAI-PMH
- Harvesting
- Library
- Metadata
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/doc/api
- aid: lund:lup-student-papers-sru
name: LUP Student Papers SRU
description: SRU 1.1 / CQL search service over the LUP Student Papers repository, returning MODS 3.3 records. No authentication
required. Base URL is /student-papers/sru.
humanURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/doc/api
baseURL: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/sru
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Student Papers
- SRU
- CQL
- Search
- Library
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/doc/api
- aid: lund:idp-saml-metadata
name: Lund University Shibboleth Identity Provider (SWAMID)
description: Lund University's own SAML 2.0 / Shibboleth Identity Provider, serving machine-readable federation metadata
at its entityID. The EntityDescriptor declares an IDPSSODescriptor, the Shibboleth scope lu.se, DiscoHints for lu.se and
lth.se, and Swedish and English UIInfo. The entity is registered in SWAMID, Sweden's national identity federation, and
is present in the SWAMID IdP aggregate that feeds eduGAIN. Institution-operated by definition and the one surface here
that is not a library service. It authenticates people with a Lund affiliation; it is not a credential a third-party developer
can get.
humanURL: https://swamid.se/
baseURL: https://idpv4.lu.se/idp/shibboleth
x-operator: institution
tags:
- Identity Federation
- SAML
- Shibboleth
- SWAMID
- eduGAIN
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://swamid.se/
- type: x-saml-metadata
url: https://idpv4.lu.se/idp/shibboleth
- aid: lund:research-portal
name: Lund University Research Portal (LUCRIS / Elsevier Pure)
description: Lund's tenant deployment of Elsevier Pure, branded LUCRIS, covering researchers, organisations, outputs, projects,
datasets and activities at portal.research.lu.se. The data and the deployment are Lund's; the contract, the record model
and the web service are Elsevier's, so no Pure specification is stored under this institution. The Pure web service path
exists on Lund's host but refuses anonymous callers with HTTP 500 and Pure's status 999 envelope. Lund documents that
LUCRIS content can be retrieved by API or RSS for institutional reporters and web editors — there is no open route to
a key.
humanURL: https://portal.research.lu.se/
x-operator: tenant
x-vendor: Elsevier Pure
x-vendor-url: https://www.elsevier.com/products/pure
tags:
- Research
- Pure
- LUCRIS
- Research Information
- Tenant
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://www.staff.lu.se/research-and-education/research-support/lucris/research-portal
x-coverage:
state: covered
reason: covered
detail: 'Every surface on this profile was reached anonymously and graded from a status code and a response body, not from
a link. Eleven institution-operated endpoints returned 200 with real data across two self-hosted repositories, and Lund''s
own Shibboleth IdP metadata was fetched and confirmed present in the SWAMID aggregate. The absences are measured too,
not assumed: data.lu.se and api.lu.se do not resolve, the course finder has no JSON endpoint behind it (/study/find-education/json
is 404), and the Elsevier Pure web service at portal.research.lu.se/ws/api returns HTTP 500 with Pure''s status 999 envelope
to anonymous callers. Lund''s own documentation is wrong about three of its own base URLs — /search/oai, /search/sru and
/search/siteindex.xml all 404 while /oai, /sru and /siteindex.xml serve — and the JSON Schema it publishes describes the
upstream repository record model rather than its live API response. Both facts are recorded on the affected entries rather
than papered over.'
evidence:
- url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/oai?verb=Identify
status: 200
- url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=dna
status: 200
- url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/publication?q=dna&format=json
status: 200
- url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/search/publication?q=dna&format=json
status: 200
- url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/unapi
status: 200
- url: https://idpv4.lu.se/idp/shibboleth
status: 200
- url: https://mds.swamid.se/md/swamid-idp.xml
status: 200
- url: https://portal.research.lu.se/ws/api
status: 500
- url: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/study/find-education/json
status: 404
- url: https://data.lu.se/
status: 0
checked: '2026-08-30'
common:
- type: Website
url: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/
- type: Documentation
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
- type: APIReference
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
- type: DeveloperPortal
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/doc/api
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/
name: Lund University Publications (LUP)
- type: ResearchRepository
url: https://lup.lub.lu.se/student-papers/
name: LUP Student Papers
- type: IdentityFederation
url: https://idpv4.lu.se/idp/shibboleth
name: Lund University Shibboleth IdP (SWAMID / eduGAIN)
- type: ResearchComputing
url: https://www.lunarc.lu.se/
name: LUNARC — Centre for Scientific and Technical Computing
- type: LibraryCatalog
url: https://www.lub.lu.se/en
name: Lund University Libraries
- type: AIPolicy
url: https://www.staff.lu.se/sites/staff.lu.se/files/2025-12/policy-on-principles-for-the-use-of-generative-AI-at-LU..pdf
name: Policy on Principles for the Use of Generative AI at Lund University
- type: AITooling
url: https://www.staff.lu.se/support-and-tools/it-mail-and-telephony/ai-lund-university
name: AI at Lund University (staff tooling)
- type: CourseCatalog
url: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/study/find-education
name: Find education (no machine-readable interface)
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/privacy-policy
- type: Support
url: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/about-lund-university/contact-us/processing-personal-data-lund-university
- type: Blog
url: https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/news
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/lunduniversity
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/lund-university/
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/lund-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/lund-authentication.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
url: capabilities/lund-capability-edges.yml
name: Lund University Business Capability Map
- 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: 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
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