# Lund University

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lund/  
**Website:** https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 36.5 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 68.5 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 28.9 |
| Access Clarity | 28.9 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 31.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 31.6 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

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

## APIs (5)

- **Lund University Publications OAI-PMH** — OAI-PMH 2.0 metadata-harvesting endpoint for fully or partially harvesting Lund University publication metadata (Identify, ListMetadataFormats, ListRecords). No authentication r...
- **Lund University Publications SRU** — 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 authen...
- **Lund University Publications unAPI** — unAPI 1 discovery service for retrieving alternate metadata formats of LUP records. No authentication required.
- **Lund University Research Portal (LUCRIS / Pure)** — Public external interface to the LUCRIS research information system, built on Elsevier Pure, covering researchers, organisations, outputs, projects, datasets, and activities. Lu...
- **Lund University Publication API** — The Publication API from Lund University — 2 operation(s) for publication.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Lund Agentic Access** — 2 operations

## Security (2)

- **Lund Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Lund Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Lund Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Education, Higher Education, University, Sweden, Research, Library, Open Data, Publications

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/lund/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.