Université libre de Bruxelles

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is a major French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium, ranked #230 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer footprint is centered on DI-fusion, the university's institutional research repository, which exposes a documented HTTP export API for scholar and group publication lists, a search interface, RSS feeds, and an OAI-PMH harvesting service for metadata. ULB also maintains an official GitHub organization for departmental and research code. Beyond these, most ULB systems (student/SIS portals, library discovery, SSO) are gated and not publicly documented as APIs.

Université libre de Bruxelles publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Education, Higher Education, University, Research, and Open Access.

The Université libre de Bruxelles catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.

Université libre de Bruxelles’ developer surface includes GitHub presence and 8 more developer resources.

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17.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 3/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

3 APIs

Education Higher Education University Research Open Access Institutional Repository Belgium

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 17.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 2.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 3/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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.

Ulb Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

SourceCode

SourceCode

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: ulb
name: Université libre de Bruxelles
description: 'Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is a major French-speaking research university in Brussels, Belgium, ranked
  #230 in the QS World University Rankings 2025. Its public, documented developer footprint is centered on DI-fusion, the
  university''s institutional research repository, which exposes a documented HTTP export API for scholar and group publication
  lists, a search interface, RSS feeds, and an OAI-PMH harvesting service for metadata. ULB also maintains an official GitHub
  organization for departmental and research code. Beyond these, most ULB systems (student/SIS portals, library discovery,
  SSO) are gated and not publicly documented as APIs.'
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/ulb.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ulb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
tags:
- Education
- Higher Education
- University
- Research
- Open Access
- Institutional Repository
- Belgium
created: '2026-06-03'
modified: '2026-06-03'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: ulb:difusion-scholar
  name: DI-fusion Scholar Export API
  description: Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a given ULB scholar (identified by matricule
    or DAI). Supports output formats including APA, BibTeX, RIS, CSV, xml-brief, xml-brief-ext and xml-full, with grouping,
    role filtering, markup and language options. Returns live XML/text bibliographic data.
  humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion
  baseURL: https://difusion-svc.ulb.ac.be/scholar
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Bibliography
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
- aid: ulb:difusion-group
  name: DI-fusion Group Export API
  description: Documented HTTP GET API that exports the publication list for a group of ULB scholars, defined either by a
    valid group ID or a list of scholar IDs. Shares output formats and options with the Scholar export API.
  humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion
  baseURL: https://difusion-svc.ulb.ac.be/group
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - Institutional Repository
  - Bibliography
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
- aid: ulb:difusion-oai
  name: DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Service
  description: ULB's DI-fusion institutional repository documents an OAI-PMH harvesting service allowing third parties to
    harvest metadata for non-profit purposes (provided the OAI identifier or source link is indicated). DI-fusion is registered
    in OpenDOAR, ROAR and Sherpa as an OAI-PMH compliant repository. The repository runs on VuFind; specific OAI base URLs
    were not returning a stable public response at review time.
  humanURL: https://bib.ulb.be/en/find-documents/di-fusion/terms-of-use
  tags:
  - Research
  - Open Access
  - OAI-PMH
  - Metadata Harvesting
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://bib.ulb.be/medias/fichier/difusion-download-and-api_1678451163130-pdf?ID_FICHE=10054&INLINE=FALSE
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ulb-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ulb.be/en
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/ulb
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://be.linkedin.com/school/universite-libre-de-bruxelles/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/ulb
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ulb-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/ulb-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/ulb-finops.yml
- type: Review
  url: review.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Université libre de Bruxelles

Kin Score

APIs 3

DI-fusion Scholar Export API

DI-fusion Group Export API

DI-fusion OAI-PMH Harvesting Service

Pricing Plans 1

Ulb Plans Pricing

Rate Limits 1

Ulb Rate Limits

FinOps 1

Ulb Finops

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Ulb Context

Security Posture 1

Ulb Domain Security

Resources