Université libre de Bruxelles

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
position: Consumer
access: 3rd-Party
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
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: '0.19'
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: 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