Tel Aviv University

aid: tel-aviv-university
name: Tel Aviv University
x-type: university
x-category: Public Research University
description: 'Tel Aviv University (TAU / אוניברסיטת תל אביב) is Israel''s largest university, a public research institution
  in Tel Aviv with roughly 30,000 students across nine faculties, and a member of the Israeli research-university group served
  by the Inter-University Computation Center (IUCC). Re-profiled on 2026-08-30 with operator attribution settled before any
  artifact was saved: TAU operates NO central developer portal, NO open-data portal and NO institution-operated public API.
  api.tau.ac.il, developer.tau.ac.il, opendata.tau.ac.il and services.tau.ac.il do not resolve; data.tau.ac.il and digital.tau.ac.il
  resolve only as vanity redirects. Every machine-readable, callable surface TAU has is a vendor product deployed under the
  institution''s name and is recorded here as a TENANT relationship, not as TAU engineering: the Ex Libris Alma OAI-PMH 2.0
  service and SRU 1.2 search service for the library record, the Ex Libris Primo VE discovery layer (institution code 972TAU_INST:TAU,
  branded "DaTA Search"), the Elsevier Pure CRIS at cris.tau.ac.il whose OAI-PMH endpoint self-identifies as "Pure OAI Repository"
  administered from purehosted@elsevier.com, and TAU''s SAML identity, which is a tau.ac.il scope on the IUCC national proxy
  identity provider in eduGAIN rather than a TAU- registered entity of its own. The only machine-readable documents TAU itself
  serves from its own hosts are the Drupal RSS 2.0 news feeds at www.tau.ac.il/rss.xml and english.tau.ac.il/rss.xml, and
  its public timetable and course search at www.ims.tau.ac.il/Tal/KR/Search_P.aspx is an HTML form with no API behind it.
  TAU publishes an institutional generative-AI guidance set for students and faculty through its Deanery for Innovation in
  Teaching and Learning. There is no official institution-wide GitHub organisation; code lives in lab and student-club orgs.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · the callable endpoints are vendor platforms under TAU's name
  confidence: high
  source:
  - conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Free · OAI-PMH and SRU harvesting are open and keyless; Primo and Pure REST are keyed
  confidence: high
  source:
  - conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
position: Consuming
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/tel-aviv-university.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tel-aviv-university/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- University
- Higher Education
- Education
- Israel
- Research
- Research Repository
- Library
- Discovery
- OAI-PMH
- Identity Federation
- Course Catalog
- Middle East
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-08-30'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: tel-aviv-university:alma-oai-pmh
  name: TAU Libraries Alma OAI-PMH Metadata Harvesting
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting 2.0 service for the Tel Aviv University library
    record, served from TAU''s Ex Libris Alma tenant. Verified live and keyless on 2026-08-30: Identify returns repositoryName
    "972TAU", baseURL https://tau.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/oai/972TAU_INST/request, repositoryIdentifier alma.972TAU_INST,
    protocolVersion 2.0 and an adminEmail on tauex.tau.ac.il — the catalogue is TAU''s and it is administered by TAU library
    staff. ListSets returns the institution''s own published sets (BrowZine, per-library lendable journal and book sets).
    The contract, however, is Ex Libris''s Alma product, identical in every Alma customer''s tenant, so it is recorded as
    a tenant relationship and no vendor specification is stored under this institution.'
  humanURL: https://en-libraries.tau.ac.il/
  baseURL: https://tau.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/oai/972TAU_INST/request
  tags:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Alma
  - Ex Libris
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  tags_raw:
  - Library
  - OAI-PMH
  - Alma
  - ExLibris
  - Metadata
  - Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/oai/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml
- aid: tel-aviv-university:alma-sru
  name: TAU Libraries Alma SRU Search
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) 1.2 search service over the Tel Aviv University library catalogue, served from
    TAU''s Ex Libris Alma tenant. Verified live and keyless on 2026-08-30: operation=explain returns a 205 KB SRU explainResponse
    with recordSchema http://explain.z3950.org/dtd/2.1/. Like the OAI-PMH service the records are TAU''s and the protocol
    implementation is Ex Libris''s, so this is a tenant relationship, not TAU engineering.'
  humanURL: https://en-libraries.tau.ac.il/
  baseURL: https://tau.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/sru/972TAU_INST
  tags:
  - Library
  - SRU
  - Search
  - Alma
  - Ex Libris
  - Catalog
  tags_raw:
  - Library
  - SRU
  - Search
  - Alma
  - ExLibris
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/sru/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml
- aid: tel-aviv-university:cris-oai-pmh
  name: TAU Research Portal (Elsevier Pure) OAI-PMH
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Tel Aviv University''s current research information system is Elsevier Pure, published as the TAU Research
    Portal at cris.tau.ac.il. The host sits on TAU''s own registrable domain but CNAMEs to telaviv.elsevierpure.com and then
    to eu.prod.elsevierpure.com, and the deployment does not self-identify as TAU: Identify returns repositoryName "Pure OAI
    Repository" with adminEmail purehosted@elsevier.com, earliestDatestamp 2020-03-22. That makes it a hosted vendor deployment
    under the institution''s name — a tenant relationship — rather than an institution-operated service. The OAI-PMH endpoint
    itself is live and keyless (verified 2026-08-30) and serves seven metadata prefixes (oai_dc, qdc, mods, mods_swepub, nl_didl,
    xmetadiss, uketd_dc) across persons:all, publications:all and per-year sets. The companion Pure Web Service at cris.tau.ac.il/ws/api
    is gated — it returns HTTP 401 "Please provide a valid API key" — and its contract is Elsevier''s, so no Pure specification
    is stored here.'
  humanURL: https://cris.tau.ac.il/
  baseURL: https://cris.tau.ac.il/ws/oai
  tags:
  - Research Repository
  - CRIS
  - OAI-PMH
  - Pure
  - Elsevier
  - Publications
  tags_raw:
  - Research Repository
  - CRIS
  - OAI-PMH
  - Pure
  - Elsevier
  - Publications
  properties:
  - type: Website
    url: https://cris.tau.ac.il/
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml
- aid: tel-aviv-university:primo-discovery
  name: TAU Libraries Primo VE Discovery (DaTA Search)
  x-operator: tenant
  description: Tel Aviv University Libraries run Ex Libris Primo VE for catalogue discovery, branded "DaTA Search", institution
    code 972TAU_INST:TAU, on the TAU-specific tenant host tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com. TAU's own data.tau.ac.il vanity host
    redirects to it. The Primo Search REST API behind the interface is provisioned per institution through Ex Libris API keys;
    no TAU-published developer portal or key request path exists. Recorded as a tenant relationship — the discovery index
    is TAU's, the contract is Ex Libris's.
  humanURL: https://tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=972TAU_INST:TAU&lang=en
  baseURL: https://tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search
  tags:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - Ex Libris
  - Catalog
  tags_raw:
  - Library
  - Discovery
  - Primo
  - ExLibris
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/apis/
  - type: Website
    url: https://en-libraries.tau.ac.il/
- aid: tel-aviv-university:iucc-identity-federation
  name: TAU SAML Identity in the IUCC Identity Federation
  x-operator: tenant
  description: 'Tel Aviv University federates through the IUCC Identity Federation (IUCCIF), the Israeli national federation
    operated by the Inter-University Computation Center, an eduGAIN member since 2014-07-07 and in production since 2014-11-25.
    Checked against the eduGAIN entity database on 2026-08-30: TAU publishes NO eduGAIN-registered identity provider of its
    own. Its identity appears instead as a shibMD:Scope value — tau.ac.il — on IUCC''s proxy identity provider, entityID https://iif-ng.iucc.ac.il/sp/saml2/idp/metadata.php
    (SIRTFI asserted, first seen 2019-06-02), alongside biu.ac.il, haifa.ac.il, huji.ac.il, technion.ac.il and weizmann.ac.il.
    The SAML 2.0 metadata document is live, public and machine-readable, and the operator is IUCC, not TAU. idp.tau.ac.il
    resolves to a campus address but refuses connections on both 80 and 443 from the public internet.'
  humanURL: https://technical.edugain.org/entities
  baseURL: https://iif-ng.iucc.ac.il/sp/saml2/idp/metadata.php
  tags:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - eduGAIN
  - IUCC
  - Single Sign-On
  tags_raw:
  - Identity Federation
  - SAML
  - Shibboleth
  - eduGAIN
  - IUCC
  - Single Sign-On
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://iif.iucc.ac.il
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://english.tau.ac.il/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://english.tau.ac.il/terms_of_use
- type: Blog
  url: https://english.tau.ac.il/news
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://english.tau.ac.il/rss.xml
- type: ResearchRepository
  url: https://cris.tau.ac.il/
- type: LibraryCatalog
  url: https://data.tau.ac.il/
- type: CourseCatalog
  url: https://www.ims.tau.ac.il/Tal/KR/Search_P.aspx
- type: IdentityFederation
  url: https://iif-ng.iucc.ac.il/sp/saml2/idp/metadata.php
- type: AIPolicy
  url: https://innovative-learning.tau.ac.il/Responsible_use_of_AI
- type: AITooling
  url: https://innovative-learning.tau.ac.il/Main_AI_tools
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://il.linkedin.com/school/tel-aviv-university/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/telavivuni
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tel-aviv-university-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tel-aviv-university-domain-security.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/tel-aviv-university-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tel-aviv-university-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tel-aviv-university-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: tenant_only
  generated: '2026-08-30'
  method: probed
  detail: 'Every surface class the university pipeline hunts was probed on 2026-08-30 and Tel Aviv University operates no
    institution-owned public API. A 90-name DNS sweep of tau.ac.il found no api., developer., opendata., services., swagger.,
    graphql. or rest. host; data.tau.ac.il and digital.tau.ac.il exist only as vanity redirects (data. lands on the Ex Libris
    Primo tenant). dspace.tau.ac.il and idp.tau.ac.il resolve to campus addresses but refuse connections on 80 and 443 from
    the public internet, so neither is a public surface. The library and research surfaces are all real and all tenant: Alma
    OAI-PMH 2.0 and SRU 1.2 on tau.alma.exlibrisgroup.com (both live, keyless, verified), Primo VE discovery on tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com,
    and the Elsevier Pure CRIS at cris.tau.ac.il whose OAI-PMH Identify names "Pure OAI Repository" and purehosted@elsevier.com
    — an Elsevier-hosted deployment on a TAU-branded CNAME, not TAU engineering. Its Pure Web Service returns 401 without
    an institution key and cris.tau.ac.il/en/datasets/ is behind a Cloudflare interstitial (HTTP 403), while the /ws/oai path
    is unchallenged. Identity federation is a real find and a negative one: TAU has no eduGAIN-registered entity, only a tau.ac.il
    shibMD:Scope on the IUCC national proxy IdP. The only machine-readable documents TAU serves from its own hosts are two
    Drupal RSS 2.0 feeds (www.tau.ac.il/rss.xml, english.tau.ac.il/rss.xml, both 200 and populated); the public course search
    at www.ims.tau.ac.il/Tal/KR/Search_P.aspx is an HTML form that POSTs to Search_L.aspx and returns HTML. No llms.txt, no
    /.well-known/security.txt, no apis.json and no sitemap.xml are served. Two entries carried by the June 2026 profile were
    removed in this run as misattributions rather than gaps: an "Alma / OAI-PMH" entry whose only URL was Ex Libris''s own
    generic vendor documentation, now re-based on the real live TAU tenant endpoint; and an "Unofficial tau-tools" API entry
    plus a GitHubOrganization pointer at github.com/arazimproject — a student club''s credential-scraping Python library that
    badges itself "tau-unofficial" and is neither operated nor endorsed by the university. It is documented in review.yml
    and is deliberately not credited as a TAU surface.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://tau.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/oai/972TAU_INST/request?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://tau.alma.exlibrisgroup.com/view/sru/972TAU_INST?version=1.2&operation=explain
    status: 200
  - url: https://cris.tau.ac.il/ws/oai?verb=Identify
    status: 200
  - url: https://cris.tau.ac.il/ws/api/524/openapi.json
    status: 401
  - url: https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/datasets/
    status: 403
  - url: https://iif-ng.iucc.ac.il/sp/saml2/idp/metadata.php
    status: 200
  - url: https://tau.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=972TAU_INST:TAU&lang=en
    status: 200
  - url: https://english.tau.ac.il/rss.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.tau.ac.il/rss.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.ims.tau.ac.il/Tal/KR/Search_P.aspx
    status: 200
  - url: https://english.tau.ac.il/terms_of_use
    status: 200
  - url: https://innovative-learning.tau.ac.il/Responsible_use_of_AI
    status: 200
  - url: https://innovative-learning.tau.ac.il/Main_AI_tools
    status: 200
  - url: https://english.tau.ac.il/
    status: 200
  - url: https://data.tau.ac.il/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.tau.ac.il/llms.txt
    status: 403
  - url: https://www.tau.ac.il/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 403
  - url: https://english.tau.ac.il/apis.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.tau.ac.il/sitemap.xml
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.tau.ac.il/
    status: 0
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  email: kin@apievangelist.com