University of California, Berkeley

aid: ucb
name: University of California, Berkeley
description: 'The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) is a public land-grant research university and the flagship
  campus of the University of California system, ranked #12 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Berkeley operates a
  formal, centrally governed API program through its Integration Services / Enterprise Information Services team, exposing
  campus data via the API Central developer portal and a shared API Gateway. Access is gated behind CalNet identity and Data
  Owner approval, with interactive OpenAPI-based documentation and gateway-level authentication, authorization, and rate limiting.
  Public, uncredentialed footprint also includes the UC-wide eScholarship repository APIs/OAI-PMH and library Alma/Primo metadata
  services.'
type: Index
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
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tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Data
- United States
- California
apis:
- aid: ucb:api-central
  name: API Central (Developer Portal)
  description: Berkeley's centralized API management developer portal where developers browse and search published campus
    APIs, read interactive OpenAPI-based documentation with a "Try it out" feature, and request access credentials. Login
    and access require a CalNet identity and Data Owner approval via ServiceNow.
  humanURL: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
  tags:
  - API Management
  - Developer Portal
  - OpenAPI
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/developer-portal-api-central
  - type: Signup
    url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
- aid: ucb:api-gateway
  name: UC Berkeley API Gateway
  description: The single, centralized entry point for API requests across the Berkeley campus. The gateway centralizes functions
    common to all campus APIs, including load balancing, authentication, authorization, and rate limiting. Individual API
    endpoints are exposed and discovered through API Central.
  humanURL: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/api-gateway
  baseURL: https://gateway.api.berkeley.edu/
  tags:
  - API Gateway
  - Authentication
  - Rate Limiting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/api-gateway
- aid: ucb:escholarship
  name: eScholarship Repository API (OAI-PMH)
  description: The University of California's open-access publishing and institutional repository (which includes UC Berkeley
    scholarship) exposes a public, uncredentialed read API and an OAI-PMH interface for harvesting metadata and content records,
    alongside RSS/Atom and KBART feeds.
  humanURL: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000223035-about-escholarship-apis
  baseURL: https://www.escholarship.org/oai
  tags:
  - Repository
  - OAI-PMH
  - Open Access
  - Research
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000223035-about-escholarship-apis
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000133474-using-the-oai-pmh-interface
- aid: ucb:library-alma
  name: UC Berkeley Library Alma/Primo Integrations
  description: The UC Berkeley Library runs the Ex Libris Alma/Primo platform for collection management and discovery, exposing
    metadata via the Alma OAI-PMH provider and Primo discovery. The library maintains public open-source Alma/Primo utilities
    on GitHub.
  humanURL: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/alma
  tags:
  - Library
  - Alma
  - Primo
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary/alma
  - type: GitHub
    url: https://github.com/BerkeleyLibrary
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.berkeley.edu/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.api.berkeley.edu/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ucberkeley
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/school/uc-berkeley/
- type: Status
  url: https://systemstatus.berkeley.edu/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/UCBerkeley
- type: Authentication
  url: https://integration-services.berkeley.edu/api-management/developer-portal-api-central
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ucb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ucb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ucb-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com