Sorbonne University

Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Université) is a public research university in Paris, France, formed in 2018 from the merger of Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre et Marie Curie universities. It serves roughly 53,000 students across faculties of Arts & Humanities, Health Sciences, and Science & Engineering, and is ranked #81 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Sorbonne University does not operate a centralized public developer portal; its programmatic surface is delivered through open-science infrastructure: the HAL Sorbonne Université open archive (harvestable via the standards-based OAI-PMH and HAL search APIs) and a Sorbonne University collection on the national Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse, which exposes a live Dataverse Native REST API. An official GitHub organization exists but currently hosts no public repositories.

Sorbonne University publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Open Science, and Research Data.

The Sorbonne University catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Sorbonne University’s developer surface includes GitHub presence and 7 more developer resources.

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21.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

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3 APIs

EducationHigher EducationUniversityOpen ScienceResearch DataOpen AccessOAI-PMHDataverseFrance

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Composite quality — 21.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 4.4 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 7.4 / 10

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 3

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

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sorbonne Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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: sorbonne
name: Sorbonne University
description: 'Sorbonne University (Sorbonne Université) is a public research university in Paris, France, formed in 2018 from
  the merger of Paris-Sorbonne and Pierre et Marie Curie universities. It serves roughly 53,000 students across faculties
  of Arts & Humanities, Health Sciences, and Science & Engineering, and is ranked #81 in the QS World University Rankings
  2025. Sorbonne University does not operate a centralized public developer portal; its programmatic surface is delivered
  through open-science infrastructure: the HAL Sorbonne Université open archive (harvestable via the standards-based OAI-PMH
  and HAL search APIs) and a Sorbonne University collection on the national Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse, which exposes a
  live Dataverse Native REST API. An official GitHub organization exists but currently hosts no public repositories.'
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/sorbonne.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sorbonne/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Open Science
- Research Data
- Open Access
- OAI-PMH
- Dataverse
- France
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: sorbonne:hal-oai
  name: HAL Sorbonne Université Open Archive (OAI-PMH)
  description: HAL Sorbonne Université is the institution's open archive of scholarly publications. Its metadata is harvestable
    through the standards-based OAI-PMH protocol served by the central HAL infrastructure (api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal),
    which returns a valid Identify response and exposes records dating back to 2002 under a CC0 metadata license. The institutional
    portal at hal.sorbonne-universite.fr is the public web front end.
  humanURL: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/
  baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/oai/hal/
  tags:
  - Open Access
  - Open Science
  - OAI-PMH
  - Repository
  - Publications
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/oai
  - type: Website
    url: https://hal.sorbonne-universite.fr/
- aid: sorbonne:hal-search
  name: HAL Search API
  description: The HAL Solr-based search API exposes structured queries over the HAL corpus, including publications affiliated
    with Sorbonne Université. It returns JSON/XML and supports faceting and filtering on collections, authors, and document
    types.
  humanURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/search
  baseURL: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/search/
  tags:
  - Search
  - Open Access
  - Publications
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/search
- aid: sorbonne:dataverse
  name: Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse - Sorbonne Université Collection
  description: Sorbonne Université maintains a research-data collection on the French national Recherche Data Gouv repository,
    built on Dataverse 6.0. The Dataverse Native REST API is live (the version endpoint returns {"status":"OK","data":{"version":"6.0"}})
    and supports programmatic dataset discovery, metadata retrieval, and file access. The Sorbonne collection holds dozens
    of datasets across earth science, physics, chemistry, and medicine.
  humanURL: https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/dataverse/sorbonne-univ
  baseURL: https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/api/
  tags:
  - Research Data
  - Dataverse
  - Open Data
  - Open Science
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/latest/api/native-api.html
  - type: Website
    url: https://entrepot.recherche.data.gouv.fr/dataverse/sorbonne-univ
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sorbonne-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/sorbonne-universite
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/sorbonne-universite/
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sorbonne-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sorbonne-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/sorbonne-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Sorbonne University

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APIs 3

HAL Sorbonne Université Open Archive (OAI-PMH)

HAL Search API

Recherche Data Gouv Dataverse - Sorbonne Université Collection

Pricing Plans 1

Sorbonne Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Sorbonne Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Sorbonne Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Sorbonne Context

Security Posture 1

Sorbonne Domain Security

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